Song of Songs 6

Song of Songs 6

1Where has your beloved gone,[#Song 1.8; 5.6]

O fairest among women?

Which way has your beloved turned

that we may seek him with you?

2My beloved has gone down to his garden,[#Song 1.7; 2.1; 4.16; 5.1, 13]

to the beds of spices,

to pasture his flock in the gardens

and to gather lilies.

3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine;[#Song 2.16; 7.10]

he pastures his flock among the lilies.

The Young Woman’s Matchless Beauty

4You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,[#v 10 ; Song 1.15]

comely as Jerusalem,

terrible as an army with banners.

5Turn away your eyes from me,[#Song 4.1]

for they overwhelm me!

Your hair is like a flock of goats,

moving down the slopes of Gilead.

6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes[#Song 4.2]

that have come up from the washing;

all of them bear twins,

and not one among them is bereaved.

7Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate[#Song 4.3]

behind your veil.

8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines[#1 Kings 11.3; Song 1.3]

and maidens without number.

9My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,[#Gen 30.13; Song 2.14; 5.2]

the darling of her mother,

flawless to her who bore her.

The maidens saw her and called her happy;

the queens and concubines praised her.

10“Who is this that looks forth like the dawn,[#v 4]

fair as the moon, bright as the sun,

terrible as an army with banners?”

11I went down to the nut orchard[#Song 7.12]

to look at the blossoms of the valley,

to see whether the vines had budded,

whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

12Before I was aware, my desire set me

in a chariot beside my prince.

13Return, return, O Shulammite![#Gen 32.2; Judg 21.21; #6.13 7.1 in Heb]

Return, return, that we may look upon you.

Why should you look upon the Shulammite,

as upon a dance before two armies?

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