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Song of Songs 8

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me. ✦ 2I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. ✦ 3His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. ✦ 4O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right. ✦ 5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth. ✦ 6Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. ✦ 7Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned. ✦ 8We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for? ✦ 9If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar. ✦ 10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace. ✦ 11Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver. ✦ 12But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit. ✦ 13You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it! ✦ 14Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Song 2 ·7Song 7 ·7Song 4 ·6Song 3 ·6Ezek 16 ·5Isa 60 ·5Song 1 ·4Ps 45 ·3

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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