Shir Hashirim 6

¹Where is thy beloved gone,

O thou fairest among nashim?

Where is thy beloved turned aside,

that we may seek him with thee?

²Dodi (my beloved) is gone down into his gan (garden) ,

to the beds of spices,

to feed in the ganim (gardens) ,

and to gather shoshanim (lilies) .

³I am my belovedʼs,

and my beloved is mine;

he feedeth among the shoshanim.

⁴Thou art yafeh, O my love, as Tirtzah,

lovely as Yerushalayim,

awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march.

⁵Turn away thine eyes from me,

for they overwhelm me;

thy hair is as an eder of goats

that descend from Gil'ad.

⁶Thy teeth are as an eder harechalim (flock of ewes)

which go up from the washing,

whereof every one is matched,

and there is not one missing among them.

⁷As a half pomegranate is thy temple

within thy veil.

⁸There are threescore melakhot (queens) ,

and fourscore pilagshim (concubines) ,

and alamot (young unmarried virgins) without number.

⁹My yonah (dove) , tammati (my perfect one, my undefiled) is unique;

she is the only one of her em (mother) ,

she is the barah (choice one) of her that bore her.

The banot saw her, they called her blessed;

yea, the melakhot and the pilagshim praise her.

¹⁰Who is she that looks forth like the shachar (dawn) ,

yafeh as the levanah (moon) , clear as the sun,

and awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march?

¹¹I went down into the grove of nut trees

to see the blossoms of the valley,

and to see whether hagefen (the vine) flourished

and the pomegranates bloomed.

¹²Before I was aware, my nefesh lifted me up

to the merkevot of ammi (my people) of one, a royal one.