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Through My Bible Yr 02 – November 24

Song of Songs 3:6 – 5:1

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Song of Songs 3:6 – 5:1 (EHV)
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Song of Songs 3

Who Is This?

The Friends and Other Bystanders

⁶Who is this woman coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and with incense,
made from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

⁷Look! It’s Solomon’s own carriage.^[1]
Sixty warriors surround it,
the most heroic of Israel,
⁸all of them wearing a sword,
all trained for battle,
each man with his sword at his side,
ready for the terrors of the night.

⁹This palanquin^[2] King Solomon made for himself
out of wood from Lebanon.
¹⁰Its posts he made of silver.
Its base he made of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple.
Its interior was inlaid with love^[3]
by the daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹Come out, you daughters of Zion,
and look at King Solomon wearing the crown,
the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
on the day his heart rejoiced.

Beautiful From Top to Bottom

The Man

Song of Songs 4

¹Look at you. You are beautiful, my darling!
Look at you. You are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
which flows down from Mount Gilead.
²Your teeth are like a flock,
ready to be sheared,
which comes up from the washing.
Each is a twin. Not one of them is left by itself.
³Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon.
Your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.
⁴Like the tower of David,
your neck is adorned with rows of stones.^[4]
A thousand shields hang on it,
all of them the equipment of warriors.
⁵Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle, that browse among the lilies.

⁶Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
and to the hill of incense.

⁷You are altogether beautiful, my darling.
There is no flaw in you.

Spices and Wine, Milk and Honey

The Man

⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my bride.
With me from Lebanon, come.
Descend from the top of Amana,
from the top of Senir and Hermon,
from the lions’ dens,
and from the mountains of the leopards.

⁹You have stirred my heart, my sister, my bride.
You have stirred my heart
with one, just one of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.

¹⁰How delightful it is to experience your love,
my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!
¹¹Your lips drip like a honeycomb, my bride.
Honey and milk are under your tongue.
The fragrance of your garments
is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹²You are an enclosed garden, my sister, my bride.
You are an enclosed spring,^[5] a sealed fountain.

¹³Your plants are an orchard,
pomegranates with other choice fruits,
henna with nard,
¹⁴nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with every kind of incense tree,
myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
¹⁵You are a garden fountain,
a well of water flowing and streaming down from Lebanon.

Come Into Your Garden

The Woman

¹⁶Arise, north wind! Come, south wind!
Blow on my garden, so that its spices spread abroad.
Let my lover come into his garden,
and eat its choice fruits.

I Have Come Into My Garden

The Man

Song of Songs 5

¹I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey.
I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat and Drink

The Friends Address the Couple^[6]

Eat, friends! Drink!
Be intoxicated with love!

Footnotes

Song of Songs 3:7 Carriage here does not refer to a wheeled vehicle but to a portable chair or couch carried by porters.
Song of Songs 3:9 A palanquin is a fancy chair or couch on which a dignitary is carried. The Hebrew word is as exotic as palanquin is.
Song of Songs 3:10 Or perhaps the term refers to a type of leather.
Song of Songs 4:4 Or adorned with elegance. The meaning is uncertain.
Song of Songs 4:12 The meaning of the word gal translated spring is uncertain. The parallelism with fountain supports the translation spring.
Song of Songs 5:1 The identity of the speaker and addressees is uncertain. Perhaps the man is speaking to some bystanders.

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