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class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My beloved has gone down to his garden,</p><p class="line2">to the beds of spices,</p><p class="line1">to browse in the gardens</p><p class="line2">and to gather 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 beloved’s and my beloved is mine;</p><p class="line2">he browses among the lilies.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">He</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,</p><p class="line2">as lovely as Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">as majestic as troops with 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 from me;</p><p class="line2">they overwhelm me.</p><p class="line1">Your hair is like a flock of goats</p><p class="line2">descending from 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 like a flock of sheep</p><p class="line2">coming up from the washing.</p><p class="line1">Each has its twin,</p><p class="line2">not one of them is missing.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your temples behind your veil</p><p class="line2">are like the halves of a pomegranate.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Sixty queens there may be,</p><p class="line2">and eighty concubines,</p><p class="line2">and virgins beyond number;</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but my dove, my perfect one, is unique,</p><p class="line2">the only daughter of her mother,</p><p class="line2">the favorite of the one who bore her.</p><p class="line1">The young women saw her and called her blessed;</p><p class="line2">the queens and concubines praised her.</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">Friends</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who is this that appears like the dawn,</p><p class="line2">fair as the moon, bright as the sun,</p><p class="line2">majestic as the stars in procession?</p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">He</p><div class="stanza"><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 nut trees</p><p class="line2">to look at the new growth in the valley,</p><p class="line1">to see if the vines 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 desire set me among the royal chariots of my people. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or among the chariots of Amminadab; or among the chariots of the people of the prince">a</a></sup></span> </p></div></div> <div class="speech"><p class="speaker">Friends</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Come back, come back, O Shulammite;</p><p class="line2">come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!</p></div></div><div class="speech"><p class="speaker">He</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">Why would you gaze on the Shulammite</p><p class="line2">as on the dance of Mahanaim? <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="In Hebrew texts this verse (6:13) is numbered 7:1.">b</a></sup></span> </p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A 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