Together in the Garden
The Friends
Where has your beloved gone, Sng 1:8Sng 5:9Jer 14:8Rut 2:12Isa 2:5Rut 1:16-17Sng 1:4Sng 2:2
O most beautiful among women?
Which way has he turned?
We will seek him with you.
The Bride
My beloved has gone down to his garden, Sng 5:131Th 4:13-14Ezk 34:23Isa 40:11Isa 57:1Isa 58:11Isa 61:11Jhn 14:3
to the beds of spices,
to pasture his flock in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; Sng 2:16Sng 7:10Heb 8:10Rev 21:2-4
he pastures his flock among the lilies.
The Bridegroom
You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, Sng 6:10Psa 48:21Ki 14:17Lam 2:15Psa 50:2Rev 21:2Sng 2:14Sng 4:7
as lovely as Jerusalem,
as majestic as troops with banners.
Turn your eyes away from me, Exo 32:10Gen 32:26-28Jer 15:1Mat 15:27-28Sng 4:1-3
for they have overcome me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep Sng 4:2Mat 21:19Mat 25:30
coming up from the washing;
each has its twin,
and not one of them is lost.
Your brow behind your veil Sng 4:3
is like a slice of pomegranate.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, Psa 45:141Ki 11:31Ki 11:12Ch 11:21Psa 45:9Rev 7:9
and maidens without number,
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, Sng 2:14Gen 30:13Psa 45:9Pro 31:28-29Rev 21:9-10Sng 5:2Gal 4:26Psa 126:2
the favorite of the mother who bore her.
The maidens see her and call her blessed;
the queens and concubines sing her praises.
The Friends
Who is this who shines like the dawn, Sng 6:4Rev 12:1Job 31:262Sa 23:4Eph 5:27Isa 58:8Mat 17:2Rev 10:1
as fair as the moon,
as bright as the sun,
as majestic as the stars in procession?
The Bridegroom
I went down to the walnut grove Sng 7:12Act 15:36Gen 2:9Isa 5:2-4Mrk 11:13Psa 92:12-15Sng 4:12-15Sng 5:1
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding
or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Before I realized it, my desire had set me Hos 11:8-9Luk 15:20Jer 31:18-20
among the royal chariots of my people. 1
The Friends
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Gen 32:22Sa 17:242Th 1:10Eph 2:14-17Eph 6:10-19Gal 5:17Gen 49:10Heb 7:2
Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you.
The Bridegroom
Why do you look at the Shulammite,
as on the dance of Mahanaim 2?