Canticle of Canticles 6

New American Bible	Catholic Public Domain Bible
¹ Where has your lover gone,	¹ Bride: "My beloved has descended to his garden, to the courtyard of aromatic plants, in order to pasture in the gardens and gather the lilies."
² My lover has come down to his garden,	² "I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me. He pastures among the lilies."
³ My lover belongs to me and I to him;	³ Groom to Bride: "My love, you are beautiful: sweet and graceful, like Jerusalem; terrible, like an army in battle array."
⁴ You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved,	⁴ "Avert your eyes from me, for they have caused me fly away. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which have appeared out of Gilead."
⁵ Turn your eyes from me,	⁵ "Your teeth are like a flock of sheep, which have ascended from the washing, each one with its identical twin, and not one among them is barren."
⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes	⁶ "Like the skin of a pomegranate, so are your cheeks, except for your hiddenness."
⁷ Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate	⁷ "There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number."
⁸ There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,	⁸ "One is my dove, my perfect one. One is her mother; elect is she who bore her. The daughters saw her, and they proclaimed her most blessed. The queens and concubines saw her, and they praised her."
⁹ One alone is my dove, my perfect one,	⁹ Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who advances like the rising dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as elect as the sun, as terrible as an army in battle array?"
¹⁰ Who is this that comes forth like the dawn,	¹⁰ Bride: "I descended to the garden of nuts, in order to see the fruits of the steep valleys, and to examine whether the vineyard had flourished and the pomegranates had produced buds."
¹¹ I came down to the nut garden	¹¹ "I did not understand. My soul was stirred up within me because of the chariots of Amminadab."
¹² Before I knew it, my heart had made me	¹² Chorus to Bride: "Return, return, O Sulamitess. Return, return, so that we may consider you."