Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 6:1

1 WHither is thy beloved gone , O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside ? that we may seek him with thee .

These are the words of the daughters of Ierusalem, last mentioned, whom this full and pathetical description of the Bridegrooms Excellency had inflamed with Love to him.

To wit, from thee, as thy words imply, v. 6, 8. where dost thou use to look for him, and to find him when thou hast lost him?

O thou who art well acquainted with all the places both of his usual abode, and of his diversion, inform us who are ignorant of them. d We ask not with any evil design, but only because we desire an interest in him.

Marginal references: Ch. 1. 8.