In this chapter the groom admires his bride’s beauty. It sounds like beauty is in the eye of the beholder – or is it? “…my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like…
Month: December 2021
Song of Solomon 3
This chapter describes the bride’s desire for her betrothed, and the groom’s elaborate approach to the wedding. “On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek…
Song of Solomon 2
In this chapter the betrothed bride pictures themselves through the eyes of their beloved, and imagines the words they speak. “My beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. O my dove, in the clefts of…