Song of Solomon 6 - Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

6 Y Where has your love gone,
most beautiful of women?
Which way has he[a] turned?
We will seek him with you.

2 W My love has gone down to his garden,(A)
to beds of spice,(B)
to feed in the gardens(C)
and gather lilies.(D)
3 I am my love’s and my love is mine;(E)
he feeds among the lilies.

4 M You are as beautiful as Tirzah,[b] my darling,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners.(F)
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
for they captivate me.(G)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.(H)
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.[c](I)
7 Behind your veil,(J)
your brow[d] is like a slice of pomegranate.
8 There are 60 queens
and 80 concubines(K)
and young women[e] without number.
9 But my dove,(L) my virtuous one, is unique;(M)
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;(N)
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:

10 Y[f] Who is this[g](O) who shines like the dawn—
as beautiful as the moon,
bright as the sun,
awe-inspiring as an army with banners?(P)

11 W I came down to the walnut grove
to see the blossoms of the valley,
to see if the vines were budding(Q)
and the pomegranates blooming.
12 Before I knew it,
my desire put me
among the chariots of my noble people.[h]

13 [i]Y Come back, come back, Shulammite![j][k]
Come back, come back, that we may look at you!

M Why are you looking at the Shulammite,
as you look at the dance(R) of the two camps?[l](S)

Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 6:1 Lit your love
  2. Song of Solomon 6:4 = a mountain city in Manasseh
  3. Song of Solomon 6:6 Lit and no one bereaved among them
  4. Song of Solomon 6:7 Or temple, or cheek, or lips
  5. Song of Solomon 6:8 Or and virgins; Sg 1:3
  6. Song of Solomon 6:10 Some see v. 10 as spoken by M.
  7. Song of Solomon 6:10 In Hb, the word for “this” is feminine.
  8. Song of Solomon 6:12 Or of Amminadib, or of my people of a prince; Hb obscure
  9. Song of Solomon 6:13 Sg 7:1 in Hb
  10. Song of Solomon 6:13 Or the peaceable one
  11. Song of Solomon 6:13 Perhaps an inhabitant of the town of Shunem, or a feminine form of Solomon’s name
  12. Song of Solomon 6:13 Or dance of Mahanaim

Cross references

  1. 6:2 : Sg 4:16; 5:1
  2. 6:2 : Sg 5:13
  3. 6:2 : Sg 1:7
  4. 6:2 : Sg 2:1
  5. 6:3 : Sg 2:16; 7:10; 8:6
  6. 6:4 : Nm 2:2-3; Sg 6:10
  7. 6:5 : Sg 4:9
  8. 6:5 : Sg 4:1
  9. 6:6 : Sg 4:2
  10. 6:7 : Sg 4:3
  11. 6:8 : 1Kg 11:3
  12. 6:9 : Sg 2:14; 5:2
  13. 6:9 : Pr 31:29
  14. 6:9 : Gn 30:13
  15. 6:10 : Sg 3:6; 8:5
  16. 6:10 : Sg 6:4
  17. 6:11 : Sg 7:12
  18. 6:13 : Jdg 21:21
  19. 6:13 : Gn 32:2; 2Sm 17:24

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