Song of Solomon 6

Young Women

¹Where has your love gone, most beautiful of women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.²

Woman

³My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies.⁴

⁵I am my love’s and my love is mine; he feeds among the lilies.⁶

Man

⁷You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, lovely as Jerusalem, awe-inspiring as an army with banners.⁸

⁹Turn your eyes away from me, for they captivate me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.¹⁰

¹¹Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing.¹²

¹³Behind your veil, your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.¹⁴

¹⁵There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and young women without number.¹⁶

¹⁷But my dove, my virtuous one, is unique; she is the favorite of her mother, perfect to the one who gave her birth. Women see her and declare her fortunate; queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:¹⁸

¹⁹Who is this who shines like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awe-inspiring as an army with banners?²⁰

Woman

²¹I came down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding and the pomegranates blooming.²²

²³I didn’t know what was happening to me. I felt like I was in a chariot with a nobleman.²⁴

Young Women

²⁵Come back, come back, Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may look at you! How you gaze at the Shulammite, as you look at the dance of the two camps!

Man

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