Young Women
6 Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he turned?
We will seek him with you.
Woman
2 My love has gone down to his garden,(A)
to beds of spice,(B)
to feed in the gardens(C)
and gather lilies.(D)
3 I am my love’s and my love is mine;(E)
he feeds among the lilies.
Man
4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.(F)
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.(G)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.(H)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.(I)
7 Behind your veil,(J)
your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.
8 There are sixty queens
and eighty concubines(K)
and young women without number.
9 But my dove,(L) my virtuous one, is unique;(M)
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;(N)
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:
10 Who is this(O) who shines like the dawn,
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?(P)
Woman
11 I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding(Q)
and the pomegranates blooming.
12 I didn’t know what was happening to me.
I felt like I was
in a chariot with a nobleman.
Young Women
13 Come back, come back, Shulammite!
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!
Man
How you gaze at the Shulammite,
as you look at the dance(R) of the two camps!(S)
Footnotes
- 6:1
- 6:6
- 6:7
- 6:8
- 6:12
- 6:13
- 6:13
Cross references
- 6:2 : Sg 4:16; 5:1
- 6:2 : Sg 5:13
- 6:2 : Sg 1:7
- 6:2 : Sg 2:1
- 6:3 : Sg 2:16; 7:10; 8:6
- 6:4 : Nm 2:2–3; Sg 6:10
- 6:5 : Sg 4:9
- 6:5 : Sg 4:1
- 6:6 : Sg 4:2
- 6:7 : Sg 4:3
- 6:8 : 1Kg 11:3
- 6:9 : Sg 2:14; 5:2
- 6:9 : Pr 31:29
- 6:9 : Gn 30:13
- 6:10 : Sg 3:6; 8:5
- 6:10 : Sg 6:4
- 6:11 : Sg 7:12
- 6:13 : Jdg 21:21
- 6:13 : Gn 32:2; 2Sm 17:24
