Canticle of Canticles 6

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.	1 Where has your lover gone,
2 I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies.	2 My lover has come down to his garden,
3 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array.	3 My lover belongs to me and I to him;
4 Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.	4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved,
5 Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.	5 Turn your eyes from me,
6 Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.	6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
7 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.	7 Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate
8 One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.	8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
9 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?	9 One alone is my dove, my perfect one,
10 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.	10 Who is this that comes forth like the dawn,
11 I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.	11 I came down to the nut garden
12 Return, return, O Sulamitess : return, return that we may behold thee.	12 Before I knew it, my heart had made me