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Song of Songs 8

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📖 Song of Songs introduction

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1Oh, I wish you were my brother, who nursed at my mother’s breasts. Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching, and no one would criticize me. ✦ 2I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, my sweet pomegranate wine. ✦ 3Your left arm would be under my head, and your right arm would embrace me. ✦ 4Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, not to awaken love until the time is right. ✦ 5Who is this sweeping in from the desert, leaning on her lover? I aroused you under the apple tree, where your mother gave you birth, where in great pain she delivered you. ✦ 6Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. ✦ 7Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned. ✦ 8We have a little sister too young to have breasts. What will we do for our sister if someone asks to marry her? ✦ 9If she is a virgin, like a wall, we will protect her with a silver tower. But if she is promiscuous, like a swinging door, we will block her door with a cedar bar. ✦ 10I was a virgin, like a wall; now my breasts are like towers. When my lover looks at me, he is delighted with what he sees. ✦ 11Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon, which he leases out to tenant farmers. Each of them pays a thousand pieces of silver for harvesting its fruit. ✦ 12But my vineyard is mine to give, and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces of silver. But I will give two hundred pieces to those who care for its vines. ✦ 13O my darling, lingering in the gardens, your companions are fortunate to hear your voice. Let me hear it, too! ✦ 14Come away, my love! 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.

How Song of Songs 8 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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