Passage

Eyes and the goats of Gilead

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

⁵Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

Song of Songs 6:5World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The speaker asks the beloved to turn her eyes away and compares her hair to goats along Gilead.

To understand

The surrounding lines compare her beauty to Tirzah and Jerusalem, then her teeth to sheep coming from washing. Places and animals supply images for different features in the praise.

A question

What different features receive comparisons to cities, goats and sheep in these lines?