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Song of Songs 8

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1Oh, that you were like my brother, Who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I should find you outside, I would kiss you; I would not be despised. ✦ 2I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, She who used to instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. (To the Daughters of Jerusalem) ✦ 3His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me. ✦ 4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases. A Relative ✦ 5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother brought you forth; There she who bore you brought you forth. The Shulamite to Her Beloved ✦ 6Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, A most vehement flame. ✦ 7Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised. The Shulamite’s Brothers ✦ 8We have a little sister, And she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is spoken for? ✦ 9If she is a wall, We will build upon her A battlement of silver; And if she is a door, We will enclose her With boards of cedar. The Shulamite ✦ 10I am a wall, And my breasts like towers; Then I became in his eyes As one who found peace. ✦ 11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon; He leased the vineyard to keepers; Everyone was to bring for its fruit A thousand silver coins. (To Solomon) ✦ 12My own vineyard is before me. You, O Solomon, may have a thousand, And those who tend its fruit two hundred. The Beloved ✦ 13You who dwell in the gardens, The companions listen for your voice— Let me hear it! The Shulamite ✦ 14Make haste, my beloved, And be like a gazelle Or a young stag On the mountains of spices. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

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

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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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