My Beloved Is Mine, and I Am His

The woman gives the Song one of its great formulas of mutual belonging: “My beloved is mine, and I am his.” The beloved feeds among the lilies, and she calls him to turn like a gazelle before the shadows flee.

Watch the formula develop. In 6:3 the order reverses—“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” In 7:10 it becomes “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.” That sequence is one of the clearest internal Threads in the whole book.

Canonical horizon: Genesis 2 presents marriage as a one-flesh union, while later prophets and apostles use marital belonging to speak of covenant relationship. A responsible reading should show that wider trajectory without pretending the Song itself announces, “this is an allegory of God and Israel” or “Christ and the church.”