Mutual Delight in Each Other
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 beds of balsam,
To pasturehis flockin the gardens
And gather lilies.
3 “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who pastureshis flockamong the lilies.”
4 “You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
As lovely as Jerusalem,
As awesome as an army with banners.
5 “Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.
6 “Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up fromtheirwashing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.
7 “Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
8 “There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,
And maidens without number;
9 Butmy dove, my perfect one, is unique:
She is her mother’s onlydaughter;
She is the purechildof the one who bore her.
The maidens saw her and called her blessed,
The queens and the concubinesalso,and they praised her,saying,
10 ‘Who is this that grows like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full moon,
As pure as the sun,
As awesome as an army with banners?’
11 “I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether the vine had budded
Orthe pomegranates had bloomed.
12 “Before I was aware, my soul set me
Overthe chariots of my noble people.”
13 “Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
# “Why should you gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of the two companies?
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