Song of Solomon 6:4-13

English Standard Version

⁴ You are beautiful as ^(A)Tirzah, ^(B)my love,
    ^(C)lovely as ^(D)Jerusalem,
    ^(E)awesome as an army with banners.
⁵ Turn away your eyes from me,
    for they overwhelm me—
^(F)Your hair is like a flock of goats
    leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
^6 (G)Your 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 (H)Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
    behind your veil.
⁸ There are ^(I)sixty ^(J)queens and eighty ^(K)concubines,
    and ^(L)virgins without number.
⁹ My ^(M)dove, my ^(N)perfect one, is the only one,
    the only one of her mother,
    pure to ^(O)her who bore her.
^(P)The young women saw her and called her blessed;
    ^(Q)the queens and ^(R)concubines also, and they praised her.

¹¹ I went down to the nut orchard
    to look at ^(U)the blossoms of the valley,
^(V)to see whether the vines had budded,
    whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
^12 (W)Before I was aware, my desire set me
    among ^(X)the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.^[a]

^13 [b] Return, return, O ^(Y)Shulammite,
    return, return, that we may look upon you.

Why should you look upon ^(Z)the Shulammite,
    as upon ^(AA)a dance before ^(AB)two armies?^[c]