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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Where has your love gone, most beautiful of women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I am my love's and my love is mine; he feeds among the lilies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, lovely as Jerusalem, awe-inspiring as an army with banners. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Turn your eyes away from me, for they captivate me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behind your veil, your brow is like a slice of pomegranate. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and young women without number. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But my dove, my virtuous one, is unique; she is the favorite of her mother, perfect to the one who gave her birth. Women see her and declare her fortunate; queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises: |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Who is this who shines like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awe-inspiring as an army with banners? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I came down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding and the pomegranates blooming. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I didn't know what was happening to me. I felt like I was in a chariot with a nobleman. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Come back, come back, Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may look at you! Man How you gaze at the Shulammite, as you look at the dance of the two camps! |
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