This final chapter reiterates some of the sentiments expressed earlier, and also provides a key summary of what love is / should be. “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire,…
Category: Song of Solomon
Thoughts and commentaries on the Book of Song of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 7
In this chapter the groom delights in his bride. “Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon… Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon… Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. How beautiful and pleasant…
Song of Solomon 6
This chapter has a few themes, one of which is reconciliation, another is faithfulness in relationship. “My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.” (v2-3) In the…
Song of Solomon 5
In this chapter the bride is hesitant to open the door for her groom and when she finally does, she finds that she missed him. “A sound! My beloved is knocking. I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them? My beloved…
Song of Solomon 4
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…
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…
Song of Solomon 1
On the surface this poetic book (also called “Song of Songs”) depicts an interaction between a man and woman in process of marrying. Reading this book at that surface level misses a much deeper meaning. The book primarily depicts a love story between Christ and His bride the church (us), and Christ’s relationship with individual…