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Song of Songs 6

1Where has your beloved gone, You beautiful one among women? Where has your beloved turned his attention? For we will seek him with you.

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2My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of spice, To shepherd his sheep in the gardens And to gather lilies.

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3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, He who shepherds his sheep among the lilies.

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4You are beautiful, my companion, You are my good pleasure; You are as beautiful as Jerusalem; You are as awesome as an army set in array.

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5Turn away your eyes from before me, For they have ravished me. Your hair is like flocks of goats Coming down from Gilead.

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6Your teeth are as flocks of sheep That are sheared, Which came up from the washing. All of them bear twins, And none among them is barren.

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7Your lips are like scarlet thread, And your manner of speech is lovely. Your cheeks outside your veil Are like the rind of a pomegranate.

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8There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And maidens without number.

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9My dove, my perfect one is the only one; And she is the only one of her mother, The choice of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And considered her blessed. The queens and the concubines will also praise her.

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10Who is she who looks forth as the early morning, Beautiful as the moon, Choice as the sun, Awesome as armies set in array?

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11I went down to the orchard of nut trees To see the fruits of the valley, To see if the vineyard had blossomed And if the pomegranates had put forth blossoms. There I will give my breasts to you:

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12My soul did not know it. It made me as the chariots of Amminadab.

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