1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you. 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies. 3 I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies. 4 You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners. 5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. 7 Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. 8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number, 9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises. 10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession? 11 I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom. 12 Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people. 13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
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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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