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Song of Solomon 1:8

If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

In Context

7Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

9I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

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Cross References

Psalms 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Psalms 45:13The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Song of Solomon 1:15Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

Song of Solomon 4:1Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes within your locks: your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 4:10How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the smell of yours ointments than all spices!

Song of Solomon 6:1Where is your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where is your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 1:8-12

The Love of the Church to Christ. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? 8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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