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Song of Songs 8:13

¶“You who sit in the gardens: My companions are listening for your voice— Let me hear it!”
Song of Songs 8:13 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
  • KJV Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
  • BSB You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
  • NKJV You who dwell in the gardens, The companions listen for your voice— Let me hear it! The Shulamite
  • NLT O my darling, lingering in the gardens, your companions are fortunate to hear your voice. Let me hear it, too!

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Quick answer

The beloved, with friends nearby, asks to hear the bride's voice. Love delights to hear the voice of the one it cherishes.

Overview

As the book draws to a close, the beloved longs simply to hear his bride speak, prizing her voice (cf. 2:14). The desire to hear the beloved expresses the intimacy and attentiveness of true love. This longing to hear the beloved's voice echoes the way Scripture pictures the Lord delighting in the prayers and praise of his people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Song 4:16Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
  • Song 1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
  • Song 5:9–16How 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?
  • Song 3:7–11Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
  • Song 6:2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Song 6:11I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
  • Song 2:13–14The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
  • Song 7:11–12Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
  • Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
  • Ps 45:14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
  • Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
  • Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
  • John 14:13–14Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • Judg 11:38He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
  • John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
  • Judg 14:11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
  • John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
  • John 16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

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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 8:13 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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