Others
Where has your beloved gone,
O amost 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 agarden
to bthe beds of spices,
to cgraze in the gardens
and to gather dlilies.
3 aI 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 aTirzah, bmy love,
clovely as dJerusalem,
eawesome 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 aYour 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 aYour cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8 There are asixty bqueens and eighty bconcubines,
and cvirgins without number.
9 My adove, my bperfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure to cher who bore her.
dThe young women saw her and called her blessed;
ethe queens and econcubines also, and they praised her.
10 a“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
bawesome as an army with banners?”
She
11 I went down to the nut orchard
to look at athe blossoms of the valley,
bto see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 aBefore I was aware, my desire set me
among bthe chariots of my kinsman, a prince.
Others
13 Return, return, O aShulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.
He
Why should you look upon athe Shulammite,
as upon ba dance before ctwo armies?