Song of Songs 6

LEB(i) 1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you? 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden bed of the spice, to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden. 3 I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me;* he pastures his flock among the lilies. 4 You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, overwhelming as an army with banners.* 5 Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them. 7 Your cheeks behind* your veil are like halves of a pomegranate. 8 Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines, and maidens beyond number. 9 My dove, she is the one;** my perfect, she is the only one;** she is the favorite of** her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate;* queens and concubines praise her: 10 "Who is this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,** overwhelming as an army with banners?"* 11 I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines have sprouted, whether the pomegranates have blossomed. 12 I did not know my heart* set me in a chariot of my princely people.* 13 * Turn, turn,* O Shulammite!* Turn, turn* so that we may look upon you! Why do you look upon the Shulammite as at a dance of the two armies?