Song of Solomon 6New King James Version
I Am My Beloved’s
The Daughters of Jerusalem
6 Where has your beloved gone,
(A)O fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned aside,
That we may seek him with you?
The Shulamite
2 My beloved has gone to his(B)garden,
To the beds of spices,
To feedhis flockin the gardens,
And to gather lilies.
3 (C)Iammy beloved’s,
And my belovedismine.
He feedshis flockamong the lilies.
Praise of the Shulamite’s Beauty
The Beloved
4 O my love, youare asbeautiful as Tirzah,
Lovely as Jerusalem,
Awesome asan armywith banners!
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have[a]overcome me.
Your hairis(D)like a flock of goats
Going down from Gilead.
6 (E)Your teetharelike a flock of sheep
Which have come up from the washing;
Every one bears twins,
And noneis[b]barren among them.
7 (F)Like a piece of pomegranate
Areyour temples behind your veil.
8 There are sixty queens
And eighty concubines,
And(G)virgins without number.
9 My dove, my(H)perfect one,
Is the only one,
The only one of her mother,
The favorite of the one who bore her.
The daughters saw her
And called her blessed,
The queens and the concubines,
And they praised her.
10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun,
(I)Awesome asan armywith banners?
The Shulamite
11 I went down to the garden of nuts
To see the verdure of the valley,
(J)To see whether the vine had budded
Andthe pomegranates had bloomed.
12 Before I was even aware,
My soul had made me
Asthe chariots of[c]my noble people.
The Beloved and His Friends
13 Return, return, O Shulamite;
Return, return, that we may look upon you!
The Shulamite
What would you see in the Shulamite—
As it were, the dance of[d]the two camps?
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 6:5overwhelmed
- Song of Solomon 6:6bereaved
- Song of Solomon 6:12Heb.Ammi Nadib
- Song of Solomon 6:13Heb.Mahanaim
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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