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Song of Songs 6 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Sng 6:1

Sng 6:1Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

Sng 6:2

Sng 6:2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Sng 6:3

Sng 6:3I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

Sng 6:4

Sng 6:4You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Sng 6:5

Sng 6:5Turn away your eyes from me, for they disturb me--Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

Sng 6:6

Sng 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.

Sng 6:7

Sng 6:7Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Sng 6:8

Sng 6:8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

Sng 6:9

Sng 6:9My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

Sng 6:10

Sng 6:10"Who is this that looks forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?"

Sng 6:11

Sng 6:11I went down to the nut orchard, to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

Sng 6:12

Sng 6:12Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.

Sng 6:13

Sng 6:13Return, return, O Shu'lammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shu'lammite, as upon a dance before two armies?
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