Song of Solomon 6:1-8

1 Most beautiful of women, where has your lover gone? Tell us which way your lover went, so that we can help you find him.

2 My lover has gone to his garden, where the balsam trees grow. He is feeding his flock in the garden and gathering lilies.

3 My lover is mine, and I am his; he feeds his flock among the lilies.

4 My love, you are as beautiful as Jerusalem, as lovely as the city of Tirzah, as breathtaking as these great cities.

5 Turn your eyes away from me; they are holding me captive. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.

6 Your teeth are as white as a flock of sheep that have just been washed. Not one of them is missing; they are all perfectly matched.

7 Your cheeks glow behind your veil.

8 Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number!

Song of Solomon 6:1-8 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. as breathtaking as . . . cities; [Hebrew unclear.]