Song of Songs 6:4-10

4My dear friend, you are as beautiful as Tirzah. You are as lovely as Jerusalem. You are as wonderful as an army that is waving its flags.

5Turn 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.

6Your teeth are very white like a group of clean sheep that is coming from the pool of water. Each tooth is one of a pair. Not one of them is alone.

7The sides of your face are beautiful, like the halves of a pomegranate. I see them through your veil.

8A king may have 60 queens. He may have 80 slave wives. He may have many other young women too. There may be too many for him to count!

9But there is only one woman that I want. Nobody is like her in any way. She is my perfect one, as lovely as a dove. She is the special daughter of her mother. Her mother loves her best among all her children. The young women saw her and they praised her. The queens and the slave wives also praised her.

10They said, ‘She is like the light that appears at dawn. She is as beautiful as the moon. She is as bright as the sun. She is as wonderful as the stars that shine brightly in their places.’