The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Song of Solomon 06
Friends
1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest
among women?
Where has your beloved turned, that
we may seek him with you?
Beloved
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.
3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is
mine.
He browses among the lilies.
Lover
4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
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.
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,
which have come up from the washing,
of which every one has twins;
not one is bereaved among them.
7 Your temples are like a piece of a
pomegranate behind your veil.
8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
and virgins without number.
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 concubines saw
her, and they praised her.
10 Who is she who looks out as themorning,
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
and awesome as an army with banners?
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.
12 With out realizing it,
my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
Friends
13 Return, return, Shulammite!
Return, return, that we may gaze at
you.
Lover
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?