Song of Solomon, Chapter 6
This is a fun chapter to read.
Jesus asks, and the saints respond.
1Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. (Jesus asks, where has your DK gone, O saints of God. The saints respond, where has your DK turned aside that we may seek him with you?)
Jesus responds to the saints of God.
2My beloved has gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. (Jesus states: My DK has gone into his garden to gather his saints and servants.)
3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. (I am my DK’s, and he is mine. He feeds among the saints of God.)
4Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. (You are beautiful, O my love DK, comely and terrible with an army of servants.)
5Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. (DK, take your servants from me, for they are ready to serve. They are like the 300 of Gideon, appearing from Gilead.)
6Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. (Quoting a verse from a previous chapter. The servants have washed in the blood of Christ, Rev. 1:5-6. They gather themselves together.)
7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. (Again, a verse from a previous chapter. John has authority over the servants.)
8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. (This verse references the queens, concubines, and virgins as members of the fairest of women in Verse 6:1. These are the saints and servants of God as referenced in the previous verses.)
9My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. (Jesus addresses his DK as but one. And likewise, his saints, one daughter of their mother whom they praise. The daughter metaphorically has queens and concubines to differentiate the saints from the servants called virgins.)
10Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? (Who is she that looks forward to the day of Jesus Christ and is a terrible army of servants?)
Jesus states:
11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. (Jesus went to the earth to see the saints under John’s authority.)
12Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. (I was like the destruction of war.)
13Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. (Return, return, O thou fairest among women. That the DK and I may look upon you as the company of two armies, the saints and servants.
