The Bride Searches for Her Beloved
The Bride Praises Her Beloved
SONG OF SOLOMON 6 [†] Where has your beloved gone,
O c most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
that we may seek him with you?
She
2[†] My beloved has gone down to his q garden
to r the beds of spices,
and to gather t lilies.
3[†] u I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;
he grazes among the lilies.
He
4[†] You are beautiful as v Tirzah, w my love,
z awesome as an army with banners.
5[†] Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me—
a Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
6 b Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins;
not one among them has lost its young.
7[†] c Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8[†] There are d sixty e queens and eighty e concubines,
and f virgins without number.
9[^] My g dove, my h perfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure to i her who bore her.
j The young women saw her and called her blessed;
e the queens and e concubines also, and they praised her.
10[†] k “Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
l awesome as an army with banners?”
She
11 I went down to the nut orchard
to look at m the blossoms of the valley,
n to see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 o Before I was aware, my desire set me
among p the chariots of my kinsman, a prince. [2]
Others
13[†] [3] Return, return, O q Shulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.
He
Why should you look upon q the Shulammite,