Song of Solomon 1
Berean Standard Bible17 verses · 2 min read
The Song of Solomon, also called the Song of Songs, is a collection of love poems voiced mainly by a bride and a bridegroom, with a chorus of friends weaving in and out. The lovers seek, find, lose and find each other again, describing one another in lavish images of gardens, spices, vineyards and mountains. The poetry celebrates desire, faithfulness and marriage as good gifts from God, with no embarrassment. Its closing lines describe love as strong as death and too powerful for floods to drown. Christians have read it in several ways: as a literal celebration of married love, as an allegory of God and his people, or of Christ and the church, or as both at once. Many teachers hold that the literal reading should not be lost inside the symbolic one. However it is read, the book affirms that human love, rightly ordered, belongs to the goodness of creation.
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The book opens with the title, a song of songs, and a young woman longing for her beloved, whose love she counts better than wine. She describes herself as dark yet lovely, sunburned from working the family vineyards. She asks where he pastures his flock, and the chorus of women answers playfully. The lovers then exchange compliments, comparing each other to jewels, flowers, and the pleasant shade of trees. Jews and Christians have long read the poem as celebrating married love, and many also hear in it an echo of God's covenant love for his people.
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