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Song of Solomon 6

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¹ Where has your beloved gone, Oⓐ most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

² My beloved has gone down to hisⓑ garden toⓒ the beds of spices, toⓓ graze[1] in the gardens and to gatherⓔ lilies.

³ ⓕ I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

⁴ You are beautiful asⓖ Tirzah,ⓗ my love, ⓘlovely asⓙ Jerusalem, ⓚawesome as an army with banners.

⁵ Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me — ⓛYour hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

⁶ ⓜ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.

⁷ ⓝ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

⁸ There areⓞ sixtyⓟ queens and eightyⓠ concubines, andⓡ virgins without number.

⁹ Myⓢ dove, myⓣ perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure toⓤ her who bore her. ⓥThe young women saw her and called her blessed; ⓦthe queens andⓧ concubines also, and they praised her.

¹⁰ ⓨ “Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, ⓩawesome as an army with banners?”

¹¹ I went down to the nut orchard to look atⓐ the blossoms of the valley, ⓑto see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

¹³ [3] Return, return, Oⓔ Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. He Why should you look uponⓕ the Shulammite, as uponⓖ a dance beforeⓗ two armies?[4]

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1	Where has your beloved gone, Oⓐ most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
2	My beloved has gone down to hisⓑ garden toⓒ the beds of spices, toⓓ graze[1] in the gardens and to gatherⓔ lilies.
3	ⓕ I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
4	You are beautiful asⓖ Tirzah,ⓗ my love, ⓘlovely asⓙ Jerusalem, ⓚawesome as an army with banners.
5	Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me — ⓛYour hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
6	ⓜ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.
7	ⓝ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
8	There areⓞ sixtyⓟ queens and eightyⓠ concubines, andⓡ virgins without number.
9	Myⓢ dove, myⓣ perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure toⓤ her who bore her. ⓥThe young women saw her and called her blessed; ⓦthe queens andⓧ concubines also, and they praised her.
10	ⓨ “Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, ⓩawesome as an army with banners?”
11	I went down to the nut orchard to look atⓐ the blossoms of the valley, ⓑto see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12	ⓒ Before I was aware, my desire set me amongⓓ the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.[2]
13	[3] Return, return, Oⓔ Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. He Why should you look uponⓕ the Shulammite, as uponⓖ a dance beforeⓗ two armies?[4]

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