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Song of Songs 8

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me. ✦ 2I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. ✦ 3His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me. ✦ 4I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. ✦ 5Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you. ✦ 6Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. ✦ 7Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. ✦ 8We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for? ✦ 9If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. ✦ 10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace. ✦ 11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit. ✦ 12My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit. ✦ 13You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! ✦ 14Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices! ✦

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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.

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