Song of Songs 6:6-12

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.

11 There I will give thee my breasts: my soul knew not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.

12 Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.

Song of Songs 6:6-12 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.