Song of Solomon 6

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1 Where has your beloved gone,

O *[See ch. 5:9above]most beautiful among women?

Where has your beloved turned,

that we may seek him with you?

Together in the Garden of Love

She

2 My beloved has gone down to his *ch. 4:16;5:1garden

to *ch. 5:13the beds of spices,

to *ch. 1:7graze*6:2 Or to pasture his flock; also verse 3 in the gardens

and to gather *[ch. 2:1]lilies.

3 *ch. 2:16;7:10I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;

he grazes among the lilies.

Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

He

4 You are beautiful as *See 1 Kgs. 14:17Tirzah, *See ch. 1:15my love,

*ch. 1:5lovely as *Ps. 48:2;50:2;Lam. 2:15;[Rev. 21:2] Jerusalem,

*ver. 10awesome as an army with banners.

5 Turn away your eyes from me,

for they overwhelm me—

*ch. 4:1Your hair is like a flock of goats

leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

6 *ch. 4:2Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

that have come up from the washing;

all of them bear twins;

not one among them has lost its young.

7 *ch. 4:3Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

behind your veil.

8 There are *[ch. 3:7] sixty *[1 Kgs. 11:3] queens and eighty *[1 Kgs. 11:3] concubines,

and *Ps. 45:9,14virgins without number.

9 My *See ch. 2:14dove, my *ch. 5:2perfect one, is the only one,

the only one of her mother,

pure to *Prov. 17:25her who bore her.

*[Gen. 30:13] The young women saw her and called her blessed;

*[See ver. 8above]the queens and *[See ver. 8above]concubines also, and they praised her.

10 *See ch. 3:6"Who is this who looks down like the dawn,

beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,

*ver. 4awesome as an army with banners?"

She

11 I went down to the nut orchard

to look at *[Job 8:11,12] the blossoms of the valley,

*ch. 7:12to see whether the vines had budded,

whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

12 *[Ps. 35:8;Prov. 5:6] Before I was aware, my desire set me

among *[2 Kgs. 2:12;13:14]the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.*6:12 Or chariots of Ammi-Nadib

Others

13 * 6:13 Ch 7:1 in Hebrew Return, return, O *[1 Kgs. 1:3;2 Kgs. 4:12] Shulammite,

return, return, that we may look upon you.

He

Why should you look upon *[1 Kgs. 1:3;2 Kgs. 4:12] the Shulammite,

as upon *[Judg. 21:21] a dance before *Gen. 32:2;2 Sam. 17:24two armies?*6:13 Or dance of Mahanaim