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Song of Songs 6 Geneva Bible (1599)

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1 My welbeloued is gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
2 I am my welbeloueds, and my welbeloued is mine, who feedeth among the lilies.
2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
3 Thou art beautifull, my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusale, terrible as an army with baners.
3 I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies.
4 Turne away thine eyes from me: for they ouercome mee: thine heare is like a flocke of goates, which looke downe from Gilead.
4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
5 Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.
5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.
6 Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.
6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them.
7 There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines and of the damsels without nober.
7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
8 But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her and counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.
8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
9 Who is shee that looketh foorth as the morning, fayre as the moone, pure as the sunne, terrible as an armie with banners!
9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.
10 I went downe to the garden of nuttes, to see the fruites of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.
10 Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
11 I knewe nothing, my soule set me as the charets of my noble people.
11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
12 Returne, returne, O Shulamite, returne: returne that we may behold thee. What shall you see in the Shulamite, but as the company of an armie?
12 Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
13 Not in this translation
13 Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
Cross references (12)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Song of Songs 5:9; Song of Songs 1:8; Jeremiah 14:8; Ruth 2:12; Song of Songs 2:2
  2. 2 Song of Songs 5:13; Revelation 7:17; Song of Songs 1:7–8; Matthew 28:20; John 17:24
  3. 3 Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 7:10; Hebrews 8:10; Revelation 21:2–4
  4. 4 Song of Songs 6:10; Psalm 48:2; 1 Kings 14:17; Revelation 21:2; Song of Songs 2:14
  5. 5 Jeremiah 15:1; Genesis 32:26–28; Exodus 32:10; Song of Songs 4:1–3; Matthew 15:27–28
  6. 6 Song of Songs 4:2; Matthew 21:19; Matthew 25:30
  7. 7 Song of Songs 4:3
  8. 8 Psalm 45:14; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Kings 11:1; Psalm 45:9; 2 Chronicles 11:21
  9. 9 Song of Songs 2:14; Psalm 45:9; Genesis 30:13; Revelation 21:9–10; Song of Songs 5:2
  10. 10 Song of Songs 6:4; Revelation 12:1; Job 31:26; Matthew 17:2; Revelation 22:5
  11. 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. 12 Luke 15:20; Hosea 11:8–9; Jeremiah 31:18–20

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  1. Quotes verse 6:3 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIII)

    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)