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Song of Solomon 2:1–2 – Humble Beauty and Exclusive Love

What happens: She calls herself a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. He answers that she is a lily among thorns.

What it means: Humility fits true beauty. Exclusive love sets the beloved apart. God’s design celebrates uniqueness within commitment.

Song of Solomon 2:3–6 – Delighted under His Care

What happens: She delights in his shade and tastes his fruit as sweet. His banner over her is love. She is faint with desire and asks for raisin cakes and apples as he holds her.

What it means: Love gives safety, nourishment, and joy. Godly affection protects and cherishes. Desire belongs in the shelter of faithful love.

Song of Solomon 2:7 – Do Not Awaken Love Too Soon

What happens: She charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

What it means: Timing matters in romance. God calls for patience and self-control. Love ripens best within His order.

Song of Solomon 2:8–13 – Come Away, Spring Has Come

What happens: She hears him coming like a gazelle. He invites her to rise and come, for winter is past and flowers appear. The season sings with life.

What it means: God’s providence brings seasons for love to grow. Healthy love invites, does not coerce. Joy rises when the time is right.

Song of Solomon 2:14–15 – Face, Voice, and Little Foxes

What happens: He asks to see her face and hear her voice. They call to catch the foxes that ruin the vineyards, the small ones that spoil the blossoming vines.

What it means: Intimacy includes open sight and honest voice. Small threats can damage a growing relationship. Guarding love is wise stewardship before God.

Song of Solomon 2:16–17 – Belonging and Waiting

What happens: She says, “My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.” She asks him to turn until the day breathes and the shadows flee.

What it means: Belonging and restraint walk together. Commitment gives freedom to wait well. God blesses patience within covenant love.

Application

  • Practice patience; let love mature in God’s time.
  • Guard your relationship from “little foxes” like secrets, neglect, or envy.
  • Cherish exclusivity and speak assurance of belonging.

Bible

1I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

5Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

8The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

16My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

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