Song of Solomon 6:3
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
BSB
ASV
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.
KJV
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Literally, "I am for my beloved . . . for me." Reverse order from So 2:16. She now, after the season of darkness, grounds her convictions on His love towards her, more than on hers towards Him (De 33:3). There, it was the young believer concluding that she was His, from the sensible assurance that He was hers.
"I have been careless and wanting in my duty, and yet I am my beloved's; " for every transgression in the covenant does not throw us out of covenant. "He has justly hidden his face from me and denied me his comforts, and yet my beloved is mine; " for rebukes and chastenings are not only consistent with, but they flow from covenant-love.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…
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“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
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Song of Solomon 7:10I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
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and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord.
My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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Song of Solomon 2:16My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
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I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
