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Song of Solomon 6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Where has your beloved gone,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O fairest among women?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Which way has your beloved turned,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that we may seek him with you?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>My beloved has gone down to his garden,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to the beds of spices,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to pasture his flock in the gardens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and to gather lilies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he pastures his flock among the lilies.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Bride’s Matchless Beauty</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">comely as Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">terrible as an army with banners.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Turn away your eyes from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for they overwhelm me!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Your hair is like a flock of goats,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">moving down the slopes of Gilead.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Your teeth are like a flock of ewes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that have come up from the washing;</span></span><br /><span class="text">all of them bear twins,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and not one among them is bereaved.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">behind your veil.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and maidens without number.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the darling of her mother,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">flawless to her that bore her.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The maidens saw her and called her happy;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>“Who is this that looks forth like the dawn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">fair as the moon, bright as the sun,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">terrible as an army with banners?”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>I went down to the nut orchard,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to look at the blossoms of the valley,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to see whether the vines had budded,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">whether the pomegranates were in bloom.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Before I was aware, my fancy set me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in a chariot beside my prince.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19697a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19698b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Return, return, O Shulammite!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Return, return, that we may look upon you.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Why should you look upon the Shulammite,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as upon a dance before two armies?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19698c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 6:12">Song of Solomon 6:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 6:13">Song of Solomon 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ch 7.1 in Heb</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 6:13">Song of Solomon 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>dance of Mahanaim</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div 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