Passage Overview · Free · Song of Solomon 6:1–3
I Am My Beloved’s, and My Beloved Is Mine
The daughters now offer to help search, but the woman knows where the beloved has gone: to his garden, among spices and lilies. She then restates the mutual-belonging formula in a changed order: “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.”
Compare 2:16. The same relationship is expressed there as “My beloved is mine, and I am his.” The shift in order may be poetic rather than psychological. It creates an internal variation worth noticing, but readers should not make a major theory of psychological development depend on the changed word order alone.