How is your lover different from other lovers, O most beautiful among women? How is your lover different from other lovers that you charge us so?
A daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The richest people will court your favor.”
Glorious things are spoken of you, city of God. Selah
If you yourself do not know, O most beautiful among women, go out yourself in the footsteps of the flock and graze your kids by the shepherds’ tents.
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you, by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it delights.
Where has your lover gone, most beautiful among women? Where has your lover turned, so we may seek him with you?
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, nor beauty that we should desire Him.
When He entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We looked upon His glory, the glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.