1 “1aWhere has your beloved gone,
O bmost beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”
2 “1My beloved has gone down to his agarden,
To the bbeds of balsam,
To cpasture his flock in the gardens
And gather dlilies.
3 “aI am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who bpastures his flock among the lilies.”
4 “1aYou are as beautiful as bTirzah, my darling,
As eawesome as 2an army with banners.
5 “Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
aYour hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.
6 “aYour teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has 1lost her young.
7 “aYour temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
8 “There are sixty aqueens and eighty concubines,
9 But amy dove, my perfect one, is 1unique:
She is her mother’s 1only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The 2bmaidens saw her and called her blessed,
The cqueens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,
10 ‘Who is this that 1grows like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full amoon,
As pure bas the sun,
As cawesome as 2an army with banners?’
11 “I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether athe vine had budded
Or the bpomegranates had bloomed.
12 “Before I was aware, my soul set me
Over the chariots of 1my noble people.”
13 “1, 2Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
“3Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
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