Song of Songs 6
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Song of Songs 6
1 #
Song 1.8; 5.6 Where has your beloved gone,
O fairest among women?
Which way has your beloved turned
that we may seek him with you?
2 #
Song 1.7; 2.1; 4.16; 5.1, 13 My beloved has gone down to his garden,
to the beds of spices,
to pasture his flock in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
3 #
Song 2.16; 7.10 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine;
he pastures his flock among the lilies.
The Young Woman’s Matchless Beauty
4 #
v 10
; Song 1.15You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,
comely as Jerusalem,
terrible as an army with banners.
5 #
Song 4.1
Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me!
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
moving down the slopes of Gilead.
6 #
Song 4.2
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins,
and not one among them is bereaved.
7 #
Song 4.3
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8 #
1 Kings 11.3; Song 1.3 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines
and maidens without number.
9 #
Gen 30.13; Song 2.14; 5.2 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,
the darling of her mother,
flawless to her who bore her.
The maidens saw her and called her happy;
the queens and concubines praised her.
10 #
v 4
“Who is this that looks forth like the dawn,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
terrible as an army with banners?”
11 #
Song 7.12
I went down to the nut orchard
to look at the blossoms of the valley,
to see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12Before I was aware, my desire set me
in a chariot beside my prince.#6.12 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
13 #
Gen 32.2; Judg 21.21 # 6.13 7.1 in Heb Return, return, O Shulammite!
Return, return, that we may look upon you.
Why should you look upon the Shulammite,
as upon a dance before two armies?#6.13 Or dance of Mahanaim
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