Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Most beautiful of women, where has your lover gone? Tell us which way your lover went, so that we can help you find him.
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Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
2 My lover has gone to his garden, where the balsam trees grow. He is feeding his flock in the garden and gathering lilies.
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My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 My lover is mine, and I am his; he feeds his flock among the lilies.
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I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
4 My love, you are as beautiful as Jerusalem, as lovely as the city of Tirzah, as breathtaking as these great cities.
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You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners.
5 Turn your eyes away from me; they are holding me captive. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.
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Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.
6 Your teeth are as white as a flock of sheep that have just been washed. Not one of them is missing; they are all perfectly matched.
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Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Of which every one has twins; None is bereaved among them.
7 Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
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Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
8 Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number!
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There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
9 But I love only one, and she is as lovely as a dove. She is her mother's only daughter, her mother's favorite child. All women look at her and praise her; queens and concubines sing her praises.
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My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 Who is this whose glance is like the dawn? She is beautiful and bright, as dazzling as the sun or the moon.
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Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?
11 I have come down among the almond trees to see the young plants in the valley, to see the new leaves on the vines and the blossoms on the pomegranate trees.
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I went down into the nut tree grove, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, And the pomegranates were in flower.
12 I am trembling; you have made me as eager for love as a chariot driver is for battle.
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Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
13 Dance, dance, girl of Shulam. Let us watch you as you dance. Why do you want to watch me as I dance between the rows of onlookers?
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Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of Mahanaim?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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