SongofSolomon 6

1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:1

2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:2

3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:3

4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:4

5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:5

6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:6

7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:7

8 There are sixty queens, eighty secondary wives, and virgins without number.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:8

9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the secondary wives, and they praised her.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:9

10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:10

11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:11

12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots.NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:12

13 Return, return, Shulammite. Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?NHEB — SongofSolomon 6:13