Song of Songs 6:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:8 : 8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
  • Isa 2:5 : 5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
  • Song 5:9 : 9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?
  • Song 6:4 : 4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
  • Song 6:9-9 : 9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises. 10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
  • Zech 8:21-23 : 21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
  • Acts 5:11-14 : 11 Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things. 12 Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way. 13 The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them; 14 And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
  • Song 2:2 : 2 As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
  • Song 5:6 : 6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
  • Ruth 1:16-17 : 16 But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
  • Ruth 2:12 : 12 The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.
  • Song 1:4 : 4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 6:2-5
    4 verses
    88%

    2My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

    3I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

    4You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

    5Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

  • Song 5:6-10
    5 verses
    84%

    6I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

    7The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

    8I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

    9What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

    10My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

  • Song 1:7-9
    3 verses
    82%

    7Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

    8If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

    9I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 2:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    8The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

    9My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 3:1-6
    6 verses
    80%

    1By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

    2I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

    5I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

    6Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • Song 7:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Song 7:6
    80%

    6How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • Song 1:4
    78%

    4Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • Song 6:9-11
    3 verses
    78%

    9My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

    10Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

    11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Song 2:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

    17Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 4:6
    77%

    6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 6:13
    77%

    13Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

  • Song 1:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

    15See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

  • Song 4:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • Song 8:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

    14Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 4:16
    76%

    16Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

  • Song 8:5
    75%

    5Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

  • Song 5:16
    75%

    16His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 2:14
    75%

    14O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 4:1
    74%

    1See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

  • Song 1:2
    74%

    2Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.