Solomon’s Love Expressed
“1How beautiful ayou are, my darling,2How beautiful you are!Your beyes are like doves cbehind your veil;Your dhair is like a flock of goatsThat have descended from Mount eGilead.Lit BeholdSong 1:15Song 1:15; 5:12Song 6:7Song 6:5Mic 7:142 “Your ateeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheepWhich have come up from their watering place,All of which bear twins,And not one among them has lost her young.Song 6:63 “Your lips are like a ascarlet thread,And your bmouth is beautiful.Your ctemples are like a slice of a pomegranateBehind your veil.Josh 2:18Song 5:16Song 6:74 “Your aneck is like the tower of David,Built with layers of stonesOn which are bhung a thousand shields,All the round cshields of the warriors.Song 7:4Ezek 27:10, 112 Sam 1:215 “Your atwo breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelleThat bgraze among the lilies.Song 7:3Song 2:16; 6:2, 36 “aUntil 1the cool of the dayWhen the shadows flee,I will go my way to the mountain of bmyrrhAnd to the hill of cfrankincense.Lit the day blowsSong 2:17Song 4:14
7 “aYou are altogether beautiful, my darling,And there is no blemish on you.Song 1:15; Eph 5:278 “Come with me from aLebanon, my bbride,You shall come with me from Lebanon.You shall 1come down from the summit of cAmana,From the summit of dSenir and Hermon,From the dens of lions,From the mountains of leopards.Or look1 Kin 4:33; Ps 72:16Song 5:1; Is 62:52 Kin 5:12Deut 3:9; 1 Chr 5:23; Ezek 27:59 “You have 1enchanted my heart, amy sister, my bride;You have 2enchanted my heart with a single glance of your eyes,With a single strand of your bnecklace.Or stolenSong 4:10, 12; 5:1, 2Gen 41:42; Prov 1:9; Ezek 16:11; Dan 5:710 “aHow beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!How much 1bsweeter is your love than wine,And the cfragrance of your oilsThan that of all kinds of balsam oils!Lit betterSong 7:6Song 1:2, 4Song 1:311 “Your lips adrip bhoney, my bride;Honey and milk are under your tongue,And the fragrance of your garments is like the cfragrance of Lebanon.Prov 5:3Ps 19:10; Prov 24:13Gen 27:27; Hos 14:612 “A locked garden is my sister, my bride,A locked spring, a asealed bfountain.Gen 29:3Prov 5:15-1813 “Your branches are an 1aorchard of bpomegranatesWith cdelicious fruits, dhenna with nard plants,Or park; or gardenEccl 2:5Song 6:11; 7:12Song 2:3; 4:16; 7:13Song 1:1414 aNard and saffron, spice reed and bcinnamon,With all the trees of cfrankincense,dMyrrh, and aloes, along with all the finest balsam oils.Song 1:12Ex 30:23Song 4:6Ps 45:8; Song 3:6; John 19:3915 “You are a garden spring,A well of 1afresh water,And flowing streams from Lebanon.”Lit living; i.e., runningZech 14:8; John 4:10
The Bride
The Groom