Song of Solomon Chapter 6
From The Open Bible Project
6:1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
- (k) Hearing of the excellency of Christ, the faithful desire to know how to find him.
6:2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
- (a) That is, is conversant here in earth among men.
6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
6:4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
- (b) Which was a fair and strong city, (1 Kings 14:17).
6:5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.
- (c) This declares the exceeding love of Christ toward his Church.
6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.
6:7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
6:8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
- (d) Meaning that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number.
6:9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
6:10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
- (e) He shows that the beginning of the Church was small, but that it grew up to a great multitude.
6:11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
- (f) He went down into the synagogue to see what fruits came from the law, and the prophets.
6:12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
- (g) I found nothing but rebellion.
- (h) Or, Set me on the chariots of my willing people.
6:13 Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
- (i) O ye people of Jerusalem, for Jerusalem was called Shalem which signifies peace.
