Others

6 Where has your beloved gone,

O cmost beautiful among women?

Where has your beloved turned,

that we may seek him with you?

Together in the Garden of Love

She

2  My beloved has gone down to his qgarden

to rthe beds of spices,

to sgraze1 in the gardens

and to gather tlilies.

3  uI am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;

he grazes among the lilies.

Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

He

4  You are beautiful as vTirzah, wmy love,

xlovely as yJerusalem,

zawesome as an army with banners.

5  Turn away your eyes from me,

for they overwhelm me—

aYour hair is like a flock of goats

leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

6  bYour teeth are like a flock of ewes

that have come up from the washing;

all of them bear twins;

not one among them has lost its young.

7  cYour cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

behind your veil.

8  There are dsixty equeens and eighty econcubines,

and fvirgins without number.

9  My gdove, my hperfect one, is the only one,

the only one of her mother,

pure to iher who bore her.

jThe young women saw her and called her blessed;

ethe queens and econcubines also, and they praised her.

10  k“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,

beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,

lawesome as an army with banners?”

She

11  I went down to the nut orchard

to look at mthe blossoms of the valley,

nto see whether the vines had budded,

whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

12  oBefore I was aware, my desire set me

among pthe chariots of my kinsman, a prince.2

Others

13  3 Return, return, O qShulammite,

return, return, that we may look upon you.

He

Why should you look upon qthe Shulammite,

as upon ra dance before stwo armies?4