1 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 2 I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies. 3 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem: terrible as an army set in array. 4 Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad. 5 Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them. 6 Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee. 7 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number. 8 One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her. 9 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? 10 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded. 11 I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab. 12 Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold thee.
Song of Songs · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Song of Songs 5:9; Song of Songs 1:8; Jeremiah 14:8; Ruth 2:12; Song of Songs 2:2
- 2 Song of Songs 5:13; Revelation 7:17; Song of Songs 1:7–8; Matthew 28:20; John 17:24
- 3 Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 7:10; Hebrews 8:10; Revelation 21:2–4
- 4 Song of Songs 6:10; Psalm 48:2; 1 Kings 14:17; Revelation 21:2; Song of Songs 2:14
- 5 Jeremiah 15:1; Genesis 32:26–28; Exodus 32:10; Song of Songs 4:1–3; Matthew 15:27–28
- 6 Song of Songs 4:2; Matthew 21:19; Matthew 25:30
- 7 Song of Songs 4:3
- 8 Psalm 45:14; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Kings 11:1; Psalm 45:9; 2 Chronicles 11:21
- 9 Song of Songs 2:14; Psalm 45:9; Genesis 30:13; Revelation 21:9–10; Song of Songs 5:2
- 10 Song of Songs 6:4; Revelation 12:1; Job 31:26; Matthew 17:2; Revelation 22:5
- 11 Song of Songs 7:12; Isaiah 5:2–4; Song of Songs 4:12–15; Song of Songs 5:1; Song of Songs 6:2
- 12 Luke 15:20; Hosea 11:8–9; Jeremiah 31:18–20
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
I am come who feed My sheep among the lilies, I am come to feed them in the gardens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)