Song of Songs 6:1-10

1 My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

2 I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.

3 Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as set in array.

4 Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.

5 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn , that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.

6 Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, without thy veil.

7 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

8 My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her.

9 Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as set in array?

10 I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, the pomegranates blossomed.

Song of Songs 6:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 6

The discourse between the church and the daughters of Jerusalem is continued in this chapter: they inquire whither her beloved was gone, in order to seek him with her, So 6:1; she tells them where he was gone, and for what purpose he went thither, and what he was doing there; and claims and asserts her interest in him, So 6:2,3; Then follows a commendation of the church by Christ, who admires her beauty, and describes her by her eyes, hair So 6:4-7; and prefers her to all others; being a singular and choice one to him, and the praise of others, So 6:8-10; and next he gives an account of his going into his garden, and his design in it, and of what happened to him there, So 6:11,12. And the chapter is concluded with a charge to the Shulamite, to turn herself, that she might be looked upon; which occasions a question, to which an answer is returned, So 6:13.