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Song of Songs 2

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain, the lily of the valley. ✦ 2Like a lily among thistles is my darling among young women. ✦ 3Like the finest apple tree in the orchard is my lover among other young men. I sit in his delightful shade and taste his delicious fruit. ✦ 4He escorts me to the banquet hall; it’s obvious how much he loves me. ✦ 5Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am weak with love. ✦ 6His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. ✦ 7Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right. ✦ 8Ah, I hear my lover coming! He is leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. ✦ 9My lover is like a swift gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he is behind the wall, looking through the window, peering into the room. ✦ 10My lover said to me, “Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one! ✦ 11Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. ✦ 12The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air. ✦ 13The fig trees are forming young fruit, and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming. Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!” ✦ 14My dove is hiding behind the rocks, behind an outcrop on the cliff. Let me see your face; let me hear your voice. For your voice is pleasant, and your face is lovely. ✦ 15Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming! ✦ 16My lover is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies. ✦ 17Before the dawn breezes blow and the night shadows flee, return to me, my love, like a gazelle or a young stag on the rugged mountains. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Song 2 ·11Song 5 ·10Song 6 ·7Song 1 ·7Song 8 ·6Song 7 ·6Eph 5 ·5Ps 63 ·4

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 2 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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