Song of Solomon 6:11-13

The bride speaks here. According to Oettli, the words of the court ladies were spoken on the fatal day when Solomon first saw her. This carries her back to that time, and ignoring Solomon's pleadings and flatteries, as she always does, she recalls what she was doing then. Translate accordingly, I had gone down, &c. Delitzsch regards the words as an account of what she has just been doing, and as revealing her modest acceptance of her unexpected elevation, and her delight still in simple country pleasures. This would seem to be Budde's view also. In accepting that view Budde admits once more that the poem, as we have it, has dramatic movement and connexion.