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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 6 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/songs/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Songs 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5">◄</a> Song of Solomon 6 <a href="../songs/7.htm" title="Song of Solomon 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Together in the Garden<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(5:17)</font> Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? whither has thy kinsman turned aside? <i>tell us</i>, and we will seek him with thee.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:1)</font> My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed <i>his flock</i> in the gardens, and to gather lilies.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:2)</font> I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:3)</font> Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as <i>armies</i> set in array.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:4)</font> Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:5)</font> Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn <i>sheep</i>, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:6)</font> Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, <i>being seen</i> without thy veil.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:7)</font> There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:8)</font> My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the <i>only</i> one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:9)</font> Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as <i>armies</i> set in array?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:10)</font> I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, <i>if</i> the pomegranates blossomed.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:11)</font> There I will give thee my breasts: my soul knew <i>it</i> not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:12)</font> Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>