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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Song of Solomon 6 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Songs 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5">◄</a> Song of Solomon 6 <a href="../songs/7.htm" title="Song of Solomon 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Where has your beloved gone,</span><br /><span class="indent">O most beautiful among women?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Where has your beloved turned,</span><br /><span class="indent">that we may seek him with you?</span></p> <p class="heading">Together in the Garden of Love</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My beloved has gone down to his garden</span><br /><span class="indent">to the beds of spices,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to graze<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to pasture his flock; also verse 3">a</a></sup></span> in the gardens</span><br /><span class="indent">and to gather lilies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;</span><br /><span class="indent">he grazes among the lilies.</span></p> <p class="heading">Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent">lovely as Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">awesome as an army with banners.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Turn away your eyes from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">for they overwhelm me—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your hair is like a flock of goats</span><br /><span class="indent">leaping down the slopes of Gilead.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your teeth are like a flock of ewes</span><br /><span class="indent">that have come up from the washing;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all of them bear twins;</span><br /><span class="indent">not one among them has lost its young.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate</span><br /><span class="indent">behind your veil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,</span><br /><span class="indent">and virgins without number.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,</span><br /><span class="indent">the only one of her mother,</span><br /><span class="indent">pure to her who bore her.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The young women saw her and called her blessed;</span><br /><span class="indent">the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,</span><br /><span class="indent">beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,</span><br /><span class="indent">awesome as an army with banners?”</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I went down to the nut orchard</span><br /><span class="indent">to look at the blossoms of the valley,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to see whether the vines had budded,</span><br /><span class="indent">whether the pomegranates were in bloom.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Before I was aware, my desire set me</span><br /><span class="indent">among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or chariots of Ammi-Nadib">b</a></sup></span></span></p> <subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 7:1 in Hebrew">c</a></sup></span> Return, return, O Shulammite,</span><br /><span class="indent">return, return, that we may look upon you.</span></p><subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Why should you look upon the Shulammite,</span><br /><span class="indent">as upon a dance before two armies?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or dance of Mahanaim">d</a></sup></span></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">to</span> pasture his flock</i>; also verse 3<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">chariots of</span> Ammi-Nadib</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Ch 7:1 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">dance</span> of Mahanaim</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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