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Song of Songs 5

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. ✦ 2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.” ✦ 3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? ✦ 4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him. ✦ 5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. ✦ 6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer. ✦ 7The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. ✦ 8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. ✦ 9How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? ✦ 10My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand. ✦ 11His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven. ✦ 12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels. ✦ 13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. ✦ 14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. ✦ 15His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. ✦ 16His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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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 5 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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