Song of Solomon 6 — TOJB

6Verse 1Where is thy beloved gone,
O thou fairest among nashim?
Where is thy beloved turned aside,
that we may seek him with thee?^{Verse 2}Dodi (my beloved) is gone down into his gan (garden),
to the beds of spices,
to feed in the ganim (gardens),
and to gather shoshanim (lilies).
^{Verse 3}I am my belovedʼs,
and my beloved is mine;
he feedeth among the shoshanim.^{Verse 4}Thou art yafeh, O my love, as Tirtzah,
lovely as Yerushalayim,
awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march.
^{Verse 5}Turn away thine eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me;
thy hair is as an eder of goats
that descend from Gil'ad.
^{Verse 6}Thy teeth are as an eder harechalim (flock of ewes)
which go up from the washing,
whereof every one is matched,
and there is not one missing among them.
^{Verse 7}As a half pomegranate is thy temple
within thy veil.
^{Verse 8}There are threescore melakhot (queens),
and fourscore pilagshim (concubines),
and alamot (young unmarried virgins) without number.^{+
Verse 9}My yonah (dove), tammati (my perfect one, my undefiled) is unique;
she is the only one of her em (mother),
she is the barah (choice one) of her that bore her.
The banot saw her, they called her blessed;
yea, the melakhot and the pilagshim⁺praise her.^{Verse 10}Who is she that looks forth like the shachar (dawn),
yafeh as the levanah (moon), clear as the sun,
and awe-inspiring as bannered troops on the march?^{Verse 11}I went down into the grove of nut trees
to see the blossoms of the valley,
and to see whether hagefen (the vine) flourished
and the pomegranates bloomed.
^{Verse 12}Before I was aware, my nefesh lifted me up
to the merkevot of ammi (my people) of one, a royal one.