Songs 6:2 {1}
Good News Translation
My lover has gone to his garden, where the balsam trees grow. He is feeding his flock in the garden and gathering lilies.

New Revised Standard Version
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Contemporary English Version
My darling has gone down to his garden of spices, where he will feed his sheep and gather lilies.

New American Bible
My lover has come down to his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

gone

Songs 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Songs 4:12-16 My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. . . .

Songs 5:1 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Matthew 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

the beds

Songs 5:13 His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

feed

Songs 1:7,8 If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds. . . .

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Ezekiel 34:23 And I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful over thee in praise.

John 4:34,35 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work. . . .

Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

and to

Songs 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Isaiah 57:1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

John 14:3 And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

Philippians 1:21-23 For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:13,14 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Context
Together in the Garden
1Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee? 2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.3I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies.…
Cross References
Songs 1:7
If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.

Songs 2:1
I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.

Songs 2:16
My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies,

Songs 4:5
Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Songs 4:16
Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Songs 5:13
His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

Songs 6:1
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