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The Lover

You are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah,[a]
    lovely like Jerusalem,
        as awesome as an army with banners.
Turn your eyes from me,
    for they excite me.[b]
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    coming down from Mt. Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
    coming up from being washed.[c]
All of them are twins,
    not one has lost[d] her young.
Your temple[e] behind your veil
    is like a slice of pomegranate.
There are sixty queens and eighty mistresses,[f]
    and too many young women to count,
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique.
She’s unique to her mother,
    she’s pure to the one who gave birth to her.
Young women see her and call her blessed,
    queens and mistresses praise her.

The Young Women

10 Who is this who appears like the dawn,
    beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
    awesome as an army with banners?

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 6:4 I.e. a prominent city in the northern kingdom of Israel
  2. Song of Solomon 6:5 Or overwhelm me
  3. Song of Solomon 6:6 Lit. from washing
  4. Song of Solomon 6:6 Lit. been bereaved of; i.e. her teeth match
  5. Song of Solomon 6:7 Or brow
  6. Song of Solomon 6:8 Or concubines; i.e. secondary wives