Song of Solomon 6

English Standard Version

6 Where has your beloved gone,
    O ^(A)most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
    that we may seek him with you?

² My beloved has gone down to his ^(B)garden
    to ^(C)the beds of spices,
to ^(D)graze^[a] in the gardens
    and to gather ^(E)lilies.
^3 (F)I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine;
    he grazes among the lilies.

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

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

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

Why should you look upon ^(AF)the Shulammite,
    as upon ^(AG)a dance before ^(AH)two armies?^[d]