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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;^[a]
    he pastures his flock among the lilies.

⁴ You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah,
    lovely as Jerusalem,
        overwhelming as an army with banners.^[b]
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^[c] 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;^[d][e]
    my perfect, she is the only one;^[f][g]
        she is the favorite of^[h][i] her mother who bore her.
Maidens see her and consider her fortunate;^[j]
    queens and concubines praise her:
¹⁰ "Who is this that looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon,
    bright as the sun,^[k][l]
        overwhelming as an army with banners?"^[m]

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^[n] set me
    in a chariot of my princely people.^[o]
13 [p] Turn, turn,^[q] O Shulammite!^[r]
    Turn, turn^[s] so that we may look upon you!
Why do you look upon the Shulammite
    as at a dance of the two armies?