אָנָה הָלַךְ דּוֹדֵךְ הַיָּפָה בַּנָּשִׁים אָנָה פָּנָה דוֹדֵךְ וּנְבַקְשֶׁנּוּ עִמָּךְ׃   6:1

Song 6:1   Where has your Beloved gone,

                               fairest among women?

                     Where has your Beloved turned,

                               that we may seek with you?

דֹּודִי יָרַד לְגַנֹּו לַעֲרוּגֹות הַבֹּשֶׂם לִרְעֹות בַּגַּנִּים וְלִלְקֹט שֹׁושַׁנִּים׃   6:2

Song 6:2   My Beloved has gone down to His garden,

                               to the beds of spice,

                     to tend among the gardens and to pick lilies.

אֲנִי לְדֹודִי וְדֹודִי לִי הָרֹעֶה בַּשֹּׁושַׁנִּים׃   6:3

Song 6:3   I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine,

                               the Shepherd among the lilies.

יָפָה אַתְּ רַעְיָתִי כְּתִרְצָה נָאוָה כִּירוּשָׁלִָם אֲיֻמָּה כַּנִּדְגָּלוֹת׃   6:4

Song 6:4   You are as fair, My beloved companion, as Tirzah,

                               as beautiful as Jerusalem,

                     as terrible as carriers of banners.

Tirzah was a Canaanite city that became the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.  This identifies the time of this work as being some time after Solomon.  Israel was already split into the two kingdoms at this writing, and both capitals are mentioned in this verse.

הָסֵבִּי עֵינַיִךְ מִנֶּגְדִּי שֶׁהֵמ הִרְהִיבֻנִי שַׂעְרֵךְ כְּעֵדֶר הָעִזִּים שֶׁגָּלְשׁוּ מִן־הַגִּלְעָד׃   6:5

Song 6:5   Turn your eyes away from Me that they disturb Me.

                               Your hair is like a flock of kids that drop down from the Gilead.

שִׁנַּיִךְ כְּעֵדֶר הָרְחֵלִים שֶׁעָלוּ מִן־הָרַחְצָה שֶׁכֻּלָּם מַתְאִימוֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָה אֵין בָּהֶם׃   6:6

Song 6:6   Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

                               when they come up from the washing,

                     such that all of them are joined,

                               and none among them is transposed.

This verse is an approximate copy of Song 4:2.

כְּפֶלַח הָרִמּוֹן רַקָּתֵךְ מִבַּעַד לְצַמָּתֵךְ׃   6:7

Song 6:7   Your brow is like a slice of pomegranate through your veil.

שִׁשִּׁים הֵמָּה מְּלָכוֹת וּשְׁמֹנִים פִּילַגְשִׁים וַעֲלָמוֹת אֵין מִסְפָּר׃   6:8

Song 6:8   These may be sixty queens and eighty concubines

                               and maidens without number;

אַחַת הִיא יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי אַחַת הִיא לְאִמָּהּ בָּרָה הִיא לְיוֹלַדְתָּהּ רָאוּהָ בָנוֹת וַיְאַשְּׁרוּהָ מְלָכוֹת   6:9

וּפִילַגְשִׁים וַיְהַלְלוּהָ׃

Song 6:9   she is one, My dove, My perfect one,

                               she is her Mother's one, purest one she is to who bore her.

                    The young women see her and they call her blessed,

                               the queens and concubines, and they praise her.

מִי־זֹאת הַנִּשְׁקָפָה כְּמוֹ־שָׁחַר יָפָה כַלְּבָנָה בָּרָה כַּחַמָּה אֲיֻמָּה כַּנִּדְגָּלוֹת׃   6:10

Song 6:10   Who is this who looks down like the dawn,

                               as fair as the moon,

                        as pure as the sun,

                               as terrible as carriers of banners?

אֶל־גִּנַּת אֱגוֹז יָרַדְתִּי לִרְאוֹת בְּאִבֵּי הַנָּחַל לִרְאוֹת הֲפָרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן הֵנֵצוּ הָרִמֹּנִים׃   6:11

Song 6:11   I go down to the garden of nuts

                               to look at the green plants of the valley,

                       to see the vine bloom,

                               the pomegranates blossom.

לֹא יָדַעְתִּי נַפְשִׁי שָׂמַתְנִי מַרְכְּבוֹת עַמִּי־נָדִיב׃   6:12

Song 6:12   Before I know, My “soul” is directing Me

                               to the chariots of My noble people.

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