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My lover belongs to me,
    and I belong to him.
He moves among the lilies with his sheep.

The young man:

My dear friend, you are as beautiful as Tirzah.

    You are as lovely as Jerusalem.[a]
You are as wonderful as an army that is waving its flags.[b]
Turn your eyes away from me.
    They give me pleasure that is too strong for me!
Your hair is like a group of goats
    that are coming down from Mount Gilead.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:4 Tirzah and Jerusalem are both beautiful capital cities.
  2. 6:4 Another way to translate the end of verse 4 may be: You are like an army that is holding up its beautiful cloth with bright colours. People might be afraid of an army like that!

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;(A)
    he browses among the lilies.(B)

He

You are as beautiful as Tirzah,(C) my darling,
    as lovely as Jerusalem,(D)
    as majestic as troops with banners.(E)
Turn your eyes from me;
    they overwhelm me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
    descending from Gilead.(F)

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