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Song of Songs 1

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1The song of songs, which is Solomon’s. ✦ 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. ✦ 3Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. ✦ 4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. ✦ 5I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ✦ 6Look 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. ✦ 7Tell 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? ✦ 8If 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. ✦ 9I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots. ✦ 10Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. ✦ 11We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. ✦ 12While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. ✦ 13A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. ✦ 14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. ✦ 15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes. ✦ 16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. ✦ 17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Song 5 ·17Song 4 ·16Song 2 ·15Ps 45 ·9Song 6 ·7Song 3 ·7Song 7 ·7Song 8 ·7

Christ at the center

The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.

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