Mutual Delight in Each Other
6 “(A)Where has your beloved gone,
O (B)most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”
2 “My beloved has gone down to his (C)garden,
To the (D)beds of balsam,
To (E)pasture his flock in the gardens
And gather (F)lilies.
3 “(G)I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who (H)pastures his flock among the lilies.”
4 “(I)You are as beautiful as (J)Tirzah, my darling,
As (K)lovely as (L)Jerusalem,
As (M)awesome as an army with banners.
5 “Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
(N)Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.
6 “(O)Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.
7 “(P)Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
8 “There are sixty (Q)queens and eighty concubines,
And (R)maidens without number;
9 But (S)my dove, my perfect one, is unique:
She is her mother’s only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The (T)maidens saw her and called her blessed,
The (U)queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,
10 ‘Who is this that grows like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full (V)moon,
As pure (W)as the sun,
As (X)awesome as an army with banners?’
11 “I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether (Y)the vine had budded
Or the (Z)pomegranates had bloomed.
12 “Before I was aware, my soul set me
Over the chariots of my noble people.”
13 “Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
“Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the (AA)dance of (AB)the two companies?
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 6:1
- Song of Solomon 6:2
- Song of Solomon 6:4
- Song of Solomon 6:4
- Song of Solomon 6:6
- Song of Solomon 6:8
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:12
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13
Cross references
- Song of Solomon 6:1 : Song 5:6
- Song of Solomon 6:1 : Song 1:8
- Song of Solomon 6:2 : Song 4:16; 5:1
- Song of Solomon 6:2 : Song 5:13
- Song of Solomon 6:2 : Song 1:7
- Song of Solomon 6:2 : Song 2:1; 5:13
- Song of Solomon 6:3 : Song 2:16; 7:10
- Song of Solomon 6:3 : Song 2:16; 4:5
- Song of Solomon 6:4 : Song 1:15
- Song of Solomon 6:4 : 1 Kin 14:17
- Song of Solomon 6:4 : Song 1:5
- Song of Solomon 6:4 : Ps 48:2; 50:2
- Song of Solomon 6:4 : Song 6:10
- Song of Solomon 6:5 : Song 4:1
- Song of Solomon 6:6 : Song 4:2
- Song of Solomon 6:7 : Song 4:3
- Song of Solomon 6:8 : 1 Kin 11:3
- Song of Solomon 6:8 : Song 1:3
- Song of Solomon 6:9 : Song 2:14; 5:2
- Song of Solomon 6:9 : Gen 30:13
- Song of Solomon 6:9 : 1 Kin 11:3
- Song of Solomon 6:10 : Job 31:26
- Song of Solomon 6:10 : Matt 17:2; Rev 1:16
- Song of Solomon 6:10 : Song 6:4
- Song of Solomon 6:11 : Song 7:12
- Song of Solomon 6:11 : Song 4:13
- Song of Solomon 6:13 : Judg 21:21
- Song of Solomon 6:13 : Gen 32:2; 2 Sam 17:24
