U-God

Library

📚Library🔍Search☀️Daily Verse📅Sacred Calendar⭐Bookmarks

Discover

🌍ExploreNew📊TopicsNew⚖️CompareNew📝BlogNew

More

💡About📜Terms
Start Reading for Free

© 2026 U-God Sacred Library

Christianity

Song of Solomon 6I Am My Beloved's

Summary

Song of Solomon 6 opens with the daughters of Jerusalem asking where the beloved has gone. The woman answers that he has gone down to his garden to gather lilies, and declares, I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He praises her as beautiful as Tirzah and lovely as Jerusalem, and unique among sixty queens and eighty concubines. Onlookers ask who she is, fair as the moon, clear as the sun. The chapter ends with a call to the Shulamite to return.

Key verse

“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.”

Song of Solomon 6:3

Themes

  • Mutual Belonging
  • Uniqueness
  • Radiance
  • Reunion

Text

1

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

2

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

3

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

4

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

5

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

6

Thy 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.

7

As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

8

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

9

My 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.

10

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

11

I 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.

12

Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

13

Return, 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.

Text: King James Version (1611/1769), public domain.

Across traditions

  • Judaism

    Song of Songs 6 (JPS 1917): Ani LeDodi

    The Hebrew first letters of ani ledodi vedodi li, I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine, spell Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah. Jewish tradition treats Elul as a season of drawing near to God in repentance. The phrase is also popular on Jewish wedding rings.

  • Christianity

    Revelation 12: A Woman Clothed with the Sun

    Revelation 12:1 describes a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet. Catholic tradition has linked this vision and Song of Solomon 6:10, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, with Mary.

Questions about Song of Solomon 6

What does I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine mean?

Song of Solomon 6:3 declares complete mutual belonging. A similar line appears in 2:16 and 7:10, and the phrase is often engraved on wedding rings.

Who is the Shulamite?

The woman is called the Shulamite in Song of Solomon 6:13 (7:1 in Hebrew Bibles). The meaning is debated: it may refer to a place such as Shunem, or be a feminine form related to the name Solomon.