Song of Songs 6-7
Christian Standard Bible
Young Women
6 Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he[a] turned?
We will seek him with you.
Woman
2 My love has gone down to his garden,(A)
to beds of spice,(B)
to feed in the gardens(C)
and gather lilies.(D)
3 I am my love’s and my love is mine;(E)
he feeds among the lilies.
Man
4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.(F)
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.(G)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.(H)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.[b](I)
7 Behind your veil,(J)
your brow[c] is like a slice of pomegranate.
8 There are sixty queens
and eighty concubines(K)
and young women[d] without number.
9 But my dove,(L) my virtuous one, is unique;(M)
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;(N)
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:
10 Who is this(O) who shines like the dawn,
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?(P)
Woman
11 I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding(Q)
and the pomegranates blooming.
12 I didn’t know what was happening to me.
I felt like I was
in a chariot with a nobleman.[e]
Young Women
13 Come back, come back, Shulammite![f]
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!
Man
7 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess![h](T)
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.(U)
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(V)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you[i] like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive(W) in your tresses.
6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,(X)
my love, with such delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”(Y)
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.(Z)
9 Your mouth[j] is like fine wine(AA)—
Woman
flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth![k]
10 I am my love’s,
and his desire(AB) is for me.(AC)
11 Come, my love,
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.[l]
12 Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.(AD)
There I will give you my caresses.
13 The mandrakes(AE) give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy,
both new and old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Lit your love
- 6:6 Lit and no one bereaved among them
- 6:7 Or temple, or cheek, or lips
- 6:8 Or and virgins; Sg 1:3
- 6:12 Hb obscure
- 6:13 Or the perfect one, or the peaceable one
- 6:13 Or dance of Mahanaim
- 7:1 Lit daughter of a nobleman, or prince
- 7:5 Lit head upon you is
- 7:9 Lit palate
- 7:9 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers
- 7:11 Or the villages
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