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¹ Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest 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 spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.³ I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; He feeds [his flock] among the lilies,

⁴ You are fair, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners.⁵ Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Whereof every one has twins, And none is bereaved among them.⁷ Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your veil.⁸ There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.⁹ My dove, my undefiled, is [but] one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; [Yes], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.¹⁰ Who is she that looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners?

¹¹ I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, [And] the pomegranates were in flower.¹² Before I was aware, my soul set me [Among] the chariots of my princely people.¹³ Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look at you. Why will you look at the Shulammite, As on the dance of Mahanaim?