1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you? 2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies. 3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies. 4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags. 5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young. 7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil. 8 There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number. 9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises. 10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags? 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower. 12 Before I was conscious of it, ... 13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.
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Shulammite
A woman addressed as 'the Shulammite' in the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's song.
Cited in the guide: Song of Songs 6:13
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- 1 Song of Songs 5:9; Song of Songs 1:8; Jeremiah 14:8; Ruth 2:12; Song of Songs 2:2
- 2 Song of Songs 5:13; Revelation 7:17; Song of Songs 1:7–8; Matthew 28:20; John 17:24
- 3 Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 7:10; Hebrews 8:10; Revelation 21:2–4
- 4 Song of Songs 6:10; Psalm 48:2; 1 Kings 14:17; Revelation 21:2; Song of Songs 2:14
- 5 Jeremiah 15:1; Genesis 32:26–28; Exodus 32:10; Song of Songs 4:1–3; Matthew 15:27–28
- 6 Song of Songs 4:2; Matthew 21:19; Matthew 25:30
- 7 Song of Songs 4:3
- 8 Psalm 45:14; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Kings 11:1; Psalm 45:9; 2 Chronicles 11:21
- 9 Song of Songs 2:14; Psalm 45:9; Genesis 30:13; Revelation 21:9–10; Song of Songs 5:2
- 10 Song of Songs 6:4; Revelation 12:1; Job 31:26; Matthew 17:2; Revelation 22:5
- 11 Song of Songs 7:12; Isaiah 5:2–4; Song of Songs 4:12–15; Song of Songs 5:1; Song of Songs 6:2
- 12 Luke 15:20; Hosea 11:8–9; Jeremiah 31:18–20
- 13 Genesis 32:2; John 9:7; Romans 3:29; Ephesians 6:10–19; Galatians 5:17
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I am come who feed My sheep among the lilies, I am come to feed them in the gardens.
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