Song of Solomon 6:1-8 (New International Version)

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Friends

1 Where has your lover¹ gone, most beautiful of women?² Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you?

Beloved

2 My lover has gone³ down to his garden,⁴ to the beds of spices,⁵ to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies. 3 I am my lover's and my lover is mine;⁶ he browses among the lilies.⁷

4 You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah,⁸ lovely as Jerusalem,⁹ majestic as troops with banners.¹⁰ 5 Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.¹¹ 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is alone.¹² 7 Your temples behind your veil¹³ are like the halves of a pomegranate.¹⁴ 8 Sixty queens¹⁵ there may be, and eighty concubines,¹⁶ and virgins beyond number;

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Song of Solomon 6:1-8 (New International Version)

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