6 Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned
that we may seek him with you?
2 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the garden bed of the spice,
to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden.
Mutual Possession Refrain
3 I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me;
he pastures his flock among the lilies.
Solomon’s Praise of His Beloved
4 You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
overwhelming as an army with banners.
5 Turn away your eyes from before me,
for they overwhelm me.
Your hair is like a flock of the goats
that moves down from Gilead.
6 Your teeth are like a flock of the ewes
that have come up from the washing,
all of them bearing twins,
and there is none bereaved among them.
7 Your cheeks behind your veil
are like halves of a pomegranate.
The Maiden’s Beauty Is without Peer
8 Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines,
and maidens beyond number.
9 My dove, she is the one;
my perfect, she is the only one;
she is the favorite of her mother who bore her.
Maidens see her and consider her fortunate;
queens and concubines praise her:
10 “Who is this that looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
overwhelming as an army with banners?”
The Journey to the Valley
11 I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees
to look at the blossoms of the valley,
to see whether the vines have sprouted,
whether the pomegranates have blossomed.
12 I did not know my heart set me
in a chariot of my princely people.
13 Turn, turn, O Shulammite!
Turn, turn so that we may look upon you!
Why do you look upon the Shulammite
as at a dance of the two armies?
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 6:3
- Song of Solomon 6:4
- Song of Solomon 6:7
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:12
- Song of Solomon 6:12
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
