KJV King James Version
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?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Song of Solomon 1:7
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?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
WEB World English Bible
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
ASV American Standard Version
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest thy flock, Where thou makest it to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 1
4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
5 I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
6 Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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].
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הַגִּ֣ידָהH5046 · na.gadto tellלִּ֗יH9030 · nimeשֶׁ֤אָהֲבָה֙H157 · a.havto love: loverנַפְשִׁ֔יH5315 · ne.pheshsoulאֵיכָ֣הH349 · ekhhow?תִרְעֶ֔הH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsאֵיכָ֖הH349 · ekhhow?תַּרְבִּ֣יץH7257 · ra.vatsto stretchבַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִםH6672 · tso.harmiddayשַׁלָּמָ֤הH4100 · mahwhat?אֶֽהְיֶה֙H1961 · ha.yahto beכְּעֹ֣טְיָ֔הH5844 · a.tahto enwrapעַ֖לH5921 · aluponעֶדְרֵ֥יH5739 · e.derflockחֲבֵרֶֽיךָ׃H2270 · cha.vercompanion
Cross-references
Song of Solomon 3:1-4By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.Isaiah 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.Psalm 23:1-2A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.Genesis 37:16And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks].Psalm 28:1[A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.John 10:28-29And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.1 Peter 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:John 21:17He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.John 10:11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Isaiah 5:1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:Psalm 80:1To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.Colossians 3:14-18And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.Psalm 116:1I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.Song of Solomon 5:10My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.Micah 5:4And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.Song of Solomon 2:16My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies.
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