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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Women of Jerusalem</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Where has your lover gone,</p><p class="line2">O woman of rare beauty?</p><p class="line1">Which way did he turn</p><p class="line2">so we can help you find him?</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My lover has gone down to his garden,</p><p class="line2">to his spice beds,</p><p class="line1">to browse in the gardens</p><p class="line2">and gather the lilies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I am my lover’s, and my lover is mine.</p><p class="line2">He browses among the lilies.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You are beautiful, my darling,</p><p class="line2">like the lovely city of Tirzah.</p><p class="line1">Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">as majestic as an army with billowing banners.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Turn your eyes away,</p><p class="line2">for they overpower me.</p><p class="line1">Your hair falls in waves,</p><p class="line2">like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your teeth are as white as sheep</p><p class="line2">that are freshly washed.</p><p class="line1">Your smile is flawless,</p><p class="line2">each tooth matched with its twin.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates</p><p class="line2">behind your veil.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Even among sixty queens</p><p class="line2">and eighty concubines</p><p class="line2">and countless young women,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I would still choose my dove, my perfect one—</p><p class="line2">the favorite of her mother,</p><p class="line2">dearly loved by the one who bore her.</p><p class="line1">The young women see her and praise her;</p><p class="line2">even queens and royal concubines sing her praises:</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Who is this, arising like the dawn,</p><p class="line2">as fair as the moon,</p><p class="line1">as bright as the sun,</p><p class="line2">as majestic as an army with billowing banners?”</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I went down to the grove of walnut trees</p><p class="line2">and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,</p><p class="line1">to see whether the grapevines had budded</p><p class="line2">or the pomegranates were in bloom.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Before I realized it,</p><p class="line2">my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Women of Jerusalem</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>Return, return to us, O maid of Shulam.</p><p class="line2">Come back, come back, that we may see you again.</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Man</p><p class="line1">Why do you stare at this young woman of Shulam,</p><p class="line2">as she moves so gracefully between two lines of dancers?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Not one is missing; each has a twin.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">to the royal chariots of my people,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">to the chariots of Amminadab.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:13a </span><span class="ft">Verse 6:13 is numbered 7:1 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:13b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">as you would at the movements of two armies?</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">as you would at the dance of Mahanaim?</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living 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