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Song of Songs 6

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1Where has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside, That we may seek him with you? The Shulamite ✦ 2My beloved has gone to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed his flock in the gardens, And to gather lilies. ✦ 3I am my beloved’s, And my beloved is mine. He feeds his flock among the lilies. The Beloved ✦ 4O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners! ✦ 5Turn your eyes away from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats Going down from Gilead. ✦ 6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep Which have come up from the washing; Every one bears twins, And none is barren among them. ✦ 7Like a piece of pomegranate Are your temples behind your veil. ✦ 8There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And virgins without number. ✦ 9My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, The only one of her mother, The favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised her. ✦ 10Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners? The Shulamite ✦ 11I went down to the garden of nuts To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine had budded And the pomegranates had bloomed. ✦ 12Before I was even aware, My soul had made me As the chariots of my noble people. The Beloved and His Friends ✦ 13Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon you! The Shulamite What would you see in the Shulamite— As it were, the dance of the two camps? ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Song 4 ·6Song 1 ·6Song 2 ·6Song 5 ·6Song 6 ·6Rev 21 ·5Ps 45 ·3Luke 15 ·2

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 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.

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