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¹ 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.

^10 (y)"Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
    beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
    ^(z)awesome as an army with banners?"

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]