Song of Songs 6
A garden of love
The young women of Jerusalem:
Where has the man who loves you gone?
Which way did he turn so that we can look for him with you?
The young woman:
He has gone to where the plants with a lovely smell grow.
He has gone there to walk in the gardens and to pick
He is walking among the
A best friend
The young man:
You are as beautiful as Tirzah.
You are as lovely as Jerusalem.
Everyone sees you easily.
You are like an army that is holding up its beautiful cloth with bright colours.
They cause a lot of pleasure for me.
But the pleasure is too strong for me!
Your hair is like a group of goats.
It is like goats that are coming down from
They are like clean sheep that come out of the pool.
Each tooth is one of a pair. Not one of them is alone.
Your
He may have 80 slave wives.
He may have many other young women too.
There may be too many for him to count!
Nobody is like her in any way.
She is lovely like a
She is mine.
Nobody else is more lovely.
She is the special daughter of her mother.
The woman who gave birth to her likes her best among all her children.
The young women saw her and they
The queens and the other wives said, ‘Well done!’
They all said:
She is more lovely every moment like the sunrise.
She is as pretty as the moon.
She is very beautiful to look at!
She is bright, like the sun.
There she stands, beautiful and important.
It is like the way that God has put each star like a king or a queen in its place.’
I wanted to see what had started to grow in the valley.
I wanted to see if the
I wanted to see if the
But I knew that I really wanted her.
This put me among the king's
The young women of Jerusalem:
Come back! Come back!
We want to look at you again.
The young man:
Do not look at the young
Do not look at her as you would watch the dance at