Song 6 | ESV | STEP | Where has your beloved gone , O most beautiful among women ? Where has your beloved turned , that we may seek him with you ?

a[See ch. 5:9 above]

x[See ver. 8 above]

y[See ver. 8 above]

zSee ch. 3:6

aa ver. 4

ab[Job 8:11, 12]

ac ch. 7:12

ad[Ps. 35:8; Prov. 5:6]

ae[2 Kgs. 2:12; 13:14]

ah[1 Kgs. 1:3; 2 Kgs. 4:12]

ai[1 Kgs. 1:3; 2 Kgs. 4:12]

aj[Judg. 21:21]

ak Gen. 32:2; 2 Sam. 17:24

‏ Song of Solomon 6

Others

1 Where has your beloved gone,
O ^amost beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
that we may seek him with you?

Together in the Garden of Love

She

2 My beloved has gone down to his ^bgarden
to ^cthe beds of spices,
to ^dgraze ^{▼▼Or to pasture his flock; also verse 3} in the gardens
and to gather ^flilies.
3 ^gI am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;
he grazes among the lilies.

Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

He

4 You are beautiful as ^hTirzah, ⁱmy love,
^jlovely as ^kJerusalem,
^lawesome as an army with banners.
5 Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me—
^mYour hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
6 ⁿYour teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins;
not one among them has lost its young.
7 ^oYour cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8 There are ^psixty ^qqueens and eighty ^rconcubines,
and ^svirgins without number.
9 My ^tdove, my ^uperfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure to ^vher who bore her.
^wThe young women saw her and called her blessed;
^xthe queens and ^yconcubines also, and they praised her.
10 ^z“Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
^aaawesome as an army with banners?”

She

11 I went down to the nut orchard
to look at ^abthe blossoms of the valley,
^acto see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
12 ^adBefore I was aware, my desire set me
among ^aethe chariots of my kinsman, a prince. ^{▼▼Or chariots of Ammi-Nadib}

Others

13 ^{▼▼Ch 7:1 in Hebrew} Return, return, O ^ahShulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.

He

Why should you look upon ^aithe Shulammite,
as upon ^aja dance before ^aktwo armies? ^{▼▼Or dance of Mahanaim}