Song of Solomon 6

New King James Version

I Am My Beloved’s

The Daughters of Jerusalem

6 Where has your beloved gone,
^(A)O fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned aside,
That we may seek him with you?

The Shulamite

²My beloved has gone to his ^(B)garden,
To the beds of spices,
To feed his flock in the gardens,
And to gather lilies.
³^(C)I am my beloved’s,
And my beloved is mine.
He feeds his flock among the lilies.

Praise of the Shulamite’s Beauty

The Beloved

⁴O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
Lovely as Jerusalem,
Awesome as an army with banners!
⁵Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have ^[a]overcome me.
Your hair is ^(D)like a flock of goats
Going down from Gilead.
⁶^(E)Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
Which have come up from the washing;
Every one bears twins,
And none is ^[b]barren among them.
⁷^(F)Like a piece of pomegranate
Are your temples behind your veil.

⁸There are sixty queens
And eighty concubines,
And ^(G)virgins without number.
⁹My dove, my ^(H)perfect 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.

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

The Shulamite

¹¹I went down to the garden of nuts
To see the verdure of the valley,
^(J)To see whether the vine had budded
And the pomegranates had bloomed.
¹²Before I was even aware,
My soul had made me
As the chariots of ^[c]my noble people.

The Beloved and His Friends

¹³Return, return, O Shulamite;
Return, return, that we may look upon you!

The Shulamite

What would you see in the Shulamite—
As it were, the dance of ^[d]the two camps?

Footnotes

Song of Solomon 6:5 overwhelmed
Song of Solomon 6:6 bereaved
Song of Solomon 6:12 Heb. Ammi Nadib
Song of Solomon 6:13 Heb. Mahanaim

Acts 7:20-43

New King James Version

²⁰^(A)At this time Moses was born, and ^(B)was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father’s house for three months. ²¹But ^(C)when he was set out, ^(D)Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. ²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was ^(E)mighty in words and deeds.

²³^(F)“Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. ²⁵For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. ²⁶And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?’ ²⁷But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ^(G)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’ ²⁹^(H)Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he ^(I)had two sons.

³⁰^(J)“And when forty years had passed, an Angel ^[a]of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. ³¹When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, ³²saying, ^(K)‘I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and dared not look. ³³^(L)‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴I have surely ^(M)seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will ^(N)send you to Egypt.” ’

³⁵“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ^(O)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer ^(P)by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶^(Q)He brought them out, after he had ^(R)shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, ^(S)and in the Red Sea, ^(T)and in the wilderness forty years.

Israel Rebels Against God

³⁷“This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ^(U)‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. ^(V)Him^[b] you shall hear.’

³⁸^(W)“This is he who was in the ^[c]congregation in the wilderness with ^(X)the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, ^(Y)the one who received the living ^(Z)oracles^[d] to give to us, ³⁹whom our fathers ^(AA)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, ⁴⁰^(AB)saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ ⁴¹^(AC)And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^(AD)rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴²Then ^(AE)God turned and gave them up to worship ^(AF)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:

^(AG)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?
⁴³You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And ^(AH)I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’