Song of Solomon 6:4

Song of Solomon 6:4

The Shulamite

2 My beloved has gone to his ^agarden,
To the beds of spices,
To feed his flock in the gardens,
And to gather lilies.

3 ^aI am my beloved’s,
And my beloved is mine.
He feeds his flock among the lilies.

Praise of the Shulamite’s Beauty

The Beloved

4 O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
Lovely as Jerusalem,
Awesome as an army with banners!

5 Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have¹ overcome me.
Your hair is ^alike a flock of goats
Going down from Gilead.

6 ^aYour teeth are like a flock of sheep
Which have come up from the washing;
Every one bears twins,
And none is¹ barren among them.

7 ^aLike a piece of pomegranate
Are your temples behind your veil.

8 There are sixty queens
And eighty concubines,
And ^avirgins without number.

9 My dove, my ^aperfect 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.

10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun,
^aAwesome as an army with banners?

The Shulamite

11 I went down to the garden of nuts
To see the verdure of the valley,
^aTo see whether the vine had budded
And the pomegranates had bloomed.

12 Before I was even aware,
My soul had made me
As the chariots of¹ my noble people.

The Beloved and His Friends

13 Return, return, O Shulamite;
Return, return, that we may look upon you!
What would you see in the Shulamite—
As it were, the dance of¹ the two camps?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Tirzah—meaning "pleasant" (Hebrews 13:21); "well-pleasing" (Matthew 5:14); the royal city of one of the old Canaanite kings (Joshua 12:24); and after the revolt of Israel, the royal city of its kings, before Omri founded Samaria (I Kings 16:8, I Kings 16:15). No ground for assigning a later date than the time of Solomon to the Song, as Tirzah was even in his time the capital of the north (Israel), as Jerusalem was of the south (Judah).

Jerusalem—residence of the kings of Judah, as Tirzah, of Israel (Psalms 48:1, etc.; Psalms 122:1-3; Psalms 125:1-2). Loveliness, security, unity, and loyalty; also the union of Israel and Judah in the Church (Isaiah 11:13; Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 37:16-17, Ezekiel 37:22; compare Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:12).

terrible—awe-inspiring. Not only armed as a city on the defensive, but as an army on the offensive.

banners—(See on Song of Solomon 5:10; Psalms 60:4); Jehovah-nissi (II Corinthians 10:4).

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