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Song of Solomon 6

Song of Solomon 6:1WEB

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

Song of Solomon 6:2WEB

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:3WEB

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:4WEB

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Song of Solomon 6:5WEB

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.

Song of Solomon 6:6WEB

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.

Song of Solomon 6:7WEB

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Song of Solomon 6:8WEB

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

Song of Solomon 6:9WEB

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.

Song of Solomon 6:10WEB

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

Song of Solomon 6:11WEB

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.

Song of Solomon 6:12WEB

Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.

Song of Solomon 6:13WEB

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?

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