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Song of Songs 6:1

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Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
Song of Songs 6:1 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
  • KJV Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
  • NKJV Where has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside, That we may seek him with you? The Shulamite
  • NASB “Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, That we may seek him with you?”
  • NLT Where has your lover gone, O woman of rare beauty? Which way did he turn so we can help you find him?

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Quick answer

The daughters of Jerusalem, moved by the bride's praise, ask where her beloved has gone so they may help seek him. Sincere praise of the beloved stirs others to seek him too.

Overview

Having heard the bride extol her beloved, the women now wish to join the search. The verse shows how love that openly honors its object draws others to share that desire. In a fitting application, a believer's heartfelt praise of Christ often awakens in others a longing to know and seek him as well.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 13

  • Song 1:8If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
  • Song 5:9How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
  • Jer 14:8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
  • Ruth 2:12May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
  • Isa 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
  • Song 6:9–10but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
  • Song 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
  • Ruth 1:16–17But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  • Song 2:2Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
  • Song 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
  • Song 5:6I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
  • Zech 8:21–23and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’
  • Acts 5:11–14And great fear came over the whole church and all who heard about these events.

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Christ at the center

The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.

How Song of Songs 6:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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Whither is thy belovedדּוֹדgoneהָלַךְO thou fairestיָפֶהamong womenאִשָּׁהwhither is thy belovedדּוֹדturned asideפָּנָהthat we may seekבָּקַשׁ
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