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Song of Solomon 6 (ESV)

 
Others
¹ Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
that we may seek him with you?
 
Together in the Garden of Love
She
² My beloved has gone down to his garden
to the beds of spices,
to graze in the gardens
and to gather lilies.
³ I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;
he grazes among the lilies.
 
Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other
He
⁴ You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
⁵ Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me—
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins;
not one among them has lost its young.
⁷ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
⁸ There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,
and virgins without number.
⁹ My dove, my perfect one, is the only one,
the only one of her mother,
pure to her who bore her.
The young women saw her and called her blessed;
the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

¹⁰ “Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
awesome as an army with banners?”
 
She
¹¹ I went down to the nut orchard
to look at the blossoms of the valley,
to see whether the vines had budded,
whether the pomegranates were in bloom.
¹² Before I was aware, my desire set me
among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.
 
Others
¹³  Return, return, O Shulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.
 
He
Why should you look upon the Shulammite,
as upon a dance before two armies?

 
REFLECTION:

• In verse 3, the woman says, “I am my lover’s and my lover is mine,” while in Song of Solomon 2:16 she says, “My lover is mine and I am his.” What does this statement and the variation in wording tell you about the relationship?
• Think of someone close to you—perhaps your spouse, a parent, a child, or a very close friend—that you need to affirm. How can you do this?
• Ask God to make you a channel of love and affirmation to those you meet.

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

HYMN:

Power of Your Love – youtu.be/p6yQzQc0lnA