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Song of Songs 1

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1This is Solomon’s song of songs, more wonderful than any other. ✦ 2Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine. ✦ 3How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you! ✦ 4Take me with you; come, let’s run! The king has brought me into his bedroom. How happy we are for you, O king. We praise your love even more than wine. How right they are to adore you. ✦ 5I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents. ✦ 6Don’t stare at me because I am dark— the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they forced me to care for their vineyards, so I couldn’t care for myself—my own vineyard. ✦ 7Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today? Where will you rest your sheep at noon? For why should I wander like a prostitute among your friends and their flocks? ✦ 8If you don’t know, O most beautiful woman, follow the trail of my flock, and graze your young goats by the shepherds’ tents. ✦ 9You are as exciting, my darling, as a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions. ✦ 10How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels. ✦ 11We will make for you earrings of gold and beads of silver. ✦ 12The king is lying on his couch, enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume. ✦ 13My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts. ✦ 14He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms from the vineyards of En-gedi. ✦ 15How beautiful you are, my darling, how beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. ✦ 16You are so handsome, my love, pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed; ✦ 17fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house, and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters. ✦

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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.

How Song of Songs 1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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