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Song of Songs 6 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1 -

Where has your love gone,

most beautiful of women?

Which way has he[fn] turned?

We will seek him with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:2 -

My love has gone down to his garden,

to beds of spice,

to feed in the gardens

and gather lilies.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:3 -

I am my love’s and my love is mine;

he feeds among the lilies.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:4 -

You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,

lovely as Jerusalem,

awe-inspiring as an army with banners.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:5 -

Turn your eyes away from me,

for they captivate me.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

streaming down from Gilead.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 -

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

coming up from washing,

each one having a twin,

and not one missing.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:7 -

Behind your veil,

your brow[fn] is like a slice of pomegranate.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:8 -

There are sixty queens

and eighty concubines

and young women[fn] without number.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 -

But 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:

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 -

Who is this who shines like the dawn,

as beautiful as the moon,

bright as the sun,

awe-inspiring as an army with banners?

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11 -

I came down to the walnut grove

to see the blossoms of the valley,

to see if the vines were budding

and the pomegranates blooming.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:12 -

I didn’t know what was happening to me.

I felt like I was

in a chariot with a nobleman.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 -

Come back, come back, Shulammite![fn]

Come back, come back, that we may look at you!

How you gaze at the Shulammite,

as you look at the dance of the two camps![fn]

CSB Footnotes
Lit your love
Lit and no one bereaved among them
Or temple, or cheek, or lips
Or and virgins ; Sg 1:3
Hb obscure
Or the perfect one, or the peaceable one
Or dance of Mahanaim
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