Young Women
1Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he turned?
We will seek him with you.
Woman
2My love has gone down to his garden,
to beds of spice,
to feed in the gardens
and gather lilies.
3I am my love’s and my love is mine;
he feeds among the lilies.
Man
4You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.
5Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.
6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.
7Behind your veil,
your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.
8There are sixty queens
and eighty concubines
and young women without number.
9But my dove, my virtuous one, is unique;
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:
10Who is this who shines like the dawn,
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?
Woman
11I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding
and the pomegranates blooming.
12I didn’t know what was happening to me.
I felt like I was
in a chariot with a nobleman.
Young Women
13Come back, come back, Shulammite!
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!
Man
How you gaze at the Shulammite,
as you look at the dance of the two camps!