Friends
Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Sng 1:8Sng 5:9Jer 14:8Rut 2:12Isa 2:5Rut 1:16-17Sng 1:4Sng 2:2
Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
Beloved
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 am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. Sng 2:16Sng 7:10Heb 8:10Rev 21:2-4
He browses among the lilies.
Lover
You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Sng 6:10Psa 48:21Ki 14:17Lam 2:15Psa 50:2Rev 21:2Sng 2:14Sng 4:7
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
Turn away your eyes 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,
that lie along the side of Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Sng 4:2Mat 21:19Mat 25:30
which have come up from the washing,
of which every one has twins;
not one is bereaved among them.
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. Sng 4:3
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, Psa 45:141Ki 11:31Ki 11:12Ch 11:21Psa 45:9Rev 7:9
and virgins without number.
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
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 saw her, and they praised her.
Who is she who looks out as the morning, Sng 6:4Rev 12:1Job 31:262Sa 23:4Eph 5:27Isa 58:8Mat 17:2Rev 10:1
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
and awesome as an army with banners?
I went down into the nut tree grove, Sng 7:12Act 15:36Gen 2:9Isa 5:2-4Mrk 11:13Psa 92:12-15Sng 4:12-15Sng 5:1
to see the green plants of the valley,
to see whether the vine budded,
and the pomegranates were in flower.
Without realizing it, Hos 11:8-9Luk 15:20Jer 31:18-20
my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
Friends
Return, return, Shulammite! Gen 32:22Sa 17:242Th 1:10Eph 2:14-17Eph 6:10-19Gal 5:17Gen 49:10Heb 7:2
Return, return, that we may gaze at you.
Lover
Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite,
as at the dance of Mahanaim?