| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Y Where has your love gone, most beautiful of women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you. W | 1Where has your love gone, most beautiful of women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you. |
| 2My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies. | 2My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies. |
| 3I am my love's and my love is mine; he feeds among the lilies. M | 3I am my love's and my love is mine; he feeds among the lilies. |
| 4You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, lovely as Jerusalem, awe-inspiring as an army with banners. | 4You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, lovely as Jerusalem, awe-inspiring as an army with banners. |
| 5Turn your eyes away from me, for they captivate me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. | 5Turn your eyes away from me, for they captivate me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. |
| 6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing. | 6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing. |
| 7Behind your veil, your brow is like a slice of pomegranate. | 7Behind your veil, your brow is like a slice of pomegranate. |
| 8There are 60 queens and 80 concubines and young women without number. | 8There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and young women without number. |
| 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: Y | 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: |
| 10Who is this who shines like the dawn-- as beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awe-inspiring as an army with banners? W | 10Who is this who shines like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awe-inspiring as an army with banners? |
| 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. | 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. |
| 12Before I knew it, my desire put me among the chariots of my noble people. Y | 12I didn't know what was happening to me. I felt like I was in a chariot with a nobleman. |
| 13Come back, come back, Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may look at you! M Why are you looking at the Shulammite, as you look at the dance of the two camps? | 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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