Song of Solomon 6

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Mutual Delight in Each Other

The Chorus

6 “^(A)Where has your beloved gone,
O ^(B)most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”

The Bride

²“My beloved has gone down to his ^(C)garden,
To the ^(D)beds of balsam,
To ^(E)pasture his flock in the gardens
And gather ^(F)lilies.
³^(G)I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who ^(H)pastures his flock among the lilies.”

The Groom

⁴“^(I)You are as beautiful as ^(J)Tirzah, my darling,
As ^(K)lovely as ^(L)Jerusalem,
As ^(M)awesome as an army with banners.
⁵Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
^(N)Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.
⁶^(O)Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
That have come up from their watering place,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.
⁷^(P)Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
⁸There are sixty ^(Q)queens and eighty concubines,
And ^[a]^(R)young women without number;
⁹But ^(S)my dove, my perfect one, is ^[b]unique:
She is her mother’s ^[c]only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who gave birth to her.
The ^[d]^(T)young women saw her and called her ^[e]blessed,
The ^(U)queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

¹⁰‘Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full ^(V)moon,
As pure ^(W)as the sun,
As ^(X)awesome as an army with banners?’
¹¹I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the plants of the valley,
To see whether ^(Y)the vine had grown
Or the ^(Z)pomegranates had bloomed.
¹²^[f]Before I was aware, my soul set me
Over the chariots of ^[g]my noble people.”

The Chorus

¹³“^[h]Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, so that we may look at you!”

The Groom

“Why should you look at the Shulammite,
As at the ^(AA)dance of ^[i]^(AB)the two armies?

Footnotes

Song of Solomon 6:8 Or virgins
Song of Solomon 6:9 Lit one
Song of Solomon 6:9 Lit one
Song of Solomon 6:9 Lit daughters
Song of Solomon 6:9 Or happy
Song of Solomon 6:12 Lit I was not aware, my soul
Song of Solomon 6:12 Or Ammi-nadib
Song of Solomon 6:13 Ch 7:1 in Heb
Song of Solomon 6:13 Or Mahanaim

Hebrews 6

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The Danger of Falling Away

6 Therefore ^(A)leaving ^(B)the ^[a]elementary teaching about the ^[b]Christ, let us press on to ^[c]^(C)maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from ^(D)dead works and of faith toward God, ²of ^(E)instruction about ^[d]washings and ^(F)laying on of hands, and about the ^(G)resurrection of the dead and ^(H)eternal judgment. ³And this we will do, ^(I)if God permits. ⁴For it is ^(J)impossible, in the case of those who have once been ^(K)enlightened and have tasted of ^(L)the heavenly gift and have been made ^(M)partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵and ^(N)have tasted the good ^(O)word of God and the powers of ^(P)the age to come, ⁶and then have ^[e]fallen away, to ^(Q)restore them again to repentance, ^[f]^(R)since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. ⁷For ground that drinks the rain which often ^[g]falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those ^(S)for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and ^[h]^(T)close to being cursed, and ^[i]it ends up being burned.

Better Things for You

⁹But, ^(U)beloved, we are convinced of better things regarding you, and things that ^[j]accompany salvation, even though we are speaking in this way. ¹⁰For ^(V)God is not unjust so as to forget ^(W)your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, by having ^(X)served and by still serving the ^[k]saints. ¹¹And we desire that each one of you demonstrate the same diligence ^[l]so as to realize the ^(Y)full assurance of ^(Z)hope until the end, ¹²so that you will not be sluggish, but ^(AA)imitators of those who through ^(AB)faith and endurance ^(AC)inherit the promises.

¹³For ^(AD)when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear an oath by no one greater, He ^(AE)swore by Himself, ¹⁴saying, “^(AF)indeed I will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply you.” ¹⁵And so, ^(AG)having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶^(AH)For people swear an oath by ^[m]one greater than themselves, and with them ^(AI)an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute. ¹⁷^[n]In the same way God, desiring even more to demonstrate to ^(AJ)the heirs of the promise ^[o]^(AK)the fact that His purpose is unchangeable, ^[p]confirmed it with an oath, ¹⁸so that by two unchangeable things in which ^(AL)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to ^(AM)the hope set before us. ¹⁹^[q]This ^(AN)hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which ^(AO)enters ^[r]within the veil, ²⁰^(AP)where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a ^(AQ)high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.