Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 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?”

Song of Solomon 1:7 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Song of Solomon 1:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Song of Solomon 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Song of Solomon 3:1By 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.
  • Psalms 23:1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
  • Psalms 28:1Unto 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.
  • Genesis 37:16And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
  • Colossians 3:14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
  • 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…
  • Revelation 7:17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
  • 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…
  • Song of Solomon 2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • John 6:67Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
  • Song of Solomon 5:10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
  • 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:
  • Song of Solomon 8:13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

More to meet God in Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon 2:14Song of Solomon 8:1Song of Solomon 5:2Song of Solomon 5:1Song of Solomon 1:4Song of Solomon 5:6Song of Solomon 3:11Song of Solomon 8:8Song of Solomon 8:5Song of Solomon 4:3Song of Solomon 4:9Song of Solomon 4:16Song of Solomon 2:3Song of Solomon 1:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.