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      Table of Content
      Song of Solomon

      Song

      Chapter 8 of 8

      Song of Solomon 8 (Listen)

      Longing for Her Beloved

      8:1   Oh that you were like a brother to me
          who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
        If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
          and none would despise me.
      2   I would lead you and bring you
          into the house of my mother—
          she who used to teach me.
        I would give you spiced wine to drink,
          the juice of my pomegranate.
      3   His left hand is under my head,
          and his right hand embraces me!
      4   I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
          that you not stir up or awaken love
          until it pleases.
      5   Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
          leaning on her beloved?
        Under the apple tree I awakened you.
        There your mother was in labor with you;
          there she who bore you was in labor.
      6   Set me as a seal upon your heart,
          as a seal upon your arm,
        for love is strong as death,
          jealousy1 is fierce as the grave.2
        Its flashes are flashes of fire,
          the very flame of the LORD.
      7   Many waters cannot quench love,
          neither can floods drown it.
        If a man offered for love
          all the wealth of his house,
          he3 would be utterly despised.

      Final Advice

      Others

      8   We have a little sister,
          and she has no breasts.
        What shall we do for our sister
          on the day when she is spoken for?
      9   If she is a wall,
          we will build on her a battlement of silver,
        but if she is a door,
          we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

      She

      10   I was a wall,
          and my breasts were like towers;
        then I was in his eyes
          as one who finds4 peace.
      11   Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
          he let out the vineyard to keepers;
          each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
      12   My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
          you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
          and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

      He

      13   O you who dwell in the gardens,
          with companions listening for your voice;
          let me hear it.

      She

      14   Make haste, my beloved,
          and be like a gazelle
        or a young stag
          on the mountains of spices.

      Song of Solomon - 8:6 Or ardor
      Song of Solomon - 8:6 Hebrew as Sheol
      Song of Solomon - 8:7 Or it
      Song of Solomon - 8:10 Or brings out

      Song of Solomon

      Resources

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      Song of Songs Chapter 8:8-14 Cathy Schreiner sings "Shalom"

      A realistic and encouraging episode. If we seek peace alone, we will never find it, because only Christ is the Prince of Peace.

      Chad Bird
      Chad Bird
      04/11/25

      Song of Solomon

      Song of Solomon
      Introduction