Song of Songs 6

¹Song of Songs 6:1. Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.²Song of Songs 6:2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.³Song of Songs 6:3. I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

⁴Song of Songs 6:4. You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.⁵Song of Songs 6:5. Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.⁶Song of Songs 6:6. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.⁷Song of Songs 6:7. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.⁸Song of Songs 6:8. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,⁹Song of Songs 6:9. but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.¹⁰Song of Songs 6:10. Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

¹¹Song of Songs 6:11. I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.¹²Song of Songs 6:12. Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.¹³Song of Songs 6:13. Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?