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Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? [Again the ladies showed their interest in the remarkable person whom the Shulammite had championed with such unstinted praise; they too wanted to know him, they insisted.] Where is your beloved hiding himself? For we would seek him with you.

[She replied] My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

I am my beloved’s [garden] and my beloved is mine! He feeds among the lilies [which grow there].

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