1
Where has your beloved gone,
Oc[See ch. 5:9 above] most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
that we may seek him with you?
2
My beloved has gone down to hisqch. 4:16; 5:1 garden
torch. 5:13 the beds of spices,
tosch. 1:7 graze1Or to pasture his flock; also verse 3 in the gardens
and to gathert[ch. 2:1] lilies.
3 uch. 2:16; 7:10 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine;
he grazes among the lilies.
4
You are beautiful asvSee 1 Kgs. 14:17 Tirzah,wSee ch. 1:15 my love,
xch. 1:5 lovely asyPs. 48:2; 50:2; Lam. 2:15; [Rev. 21:2] Jerusalem,
zver. 10 awesome as an army with banners.
5 Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me—
ach. 4:1 Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
6 bch. 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins;
not one among them has lost its young.
7 cch. 4:3 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8 There ared[ch. 3:7] sixtye[1 Kgs. 11:3] queens and eightye[1 Kgs. 11:3] concubines,
andfPs. 45:9, 14 virgins without number.
9 MygSee ch. 2:14 dove, myhch. 5:2 perfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure toiProv. 17:25 her who bore her.
j[Gen. 30:13] The young women saw her and called her blessed;
e[See ver. 8 above] the queens ande[See ver. 8 above] concubines also, and they praised her.
10 kSee ch. 3:6 “Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
lver. 4 awesome as an army with banners? ”
11
I went down to the nut orchard
to look atm[Job 8:11, 12] the blossoms of the valley,
nch. 7:12 to see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 o[Ps. 35:8; Prov. 5:6] Before I was aware, my desire set me
amongp[2 Kgs. 2:12; 13:14] the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.1Or chariots of Ammi-Nadib
13
Return, return, Oq[1 Kgs. 1:3; 2 Kgs. 4:12] Shulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.
Why should you look uponq[1 Kgs. 1:3; 2 Kgs. 4:12] the Shulammite,
as uponr[Judg. 21:21] a dance beforesGen. 32:2; 2 Sam. 17:24 two armies?2Or dance of Mahanaim