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Song of Solomon 5:1 – Love Enjoyed

What happens: He declares he has come into his garden and enjoyed its fruit. Friends call, “Eat, friends; drink and be drunk with love.”

What it means: God approves joyful marital intimacy. Love within covenant is to be received with gratitude. Community blessing affirms what is pure.

Song of Solomon 5:2–8 – Missed Moment and Costly Search

What happens: She hears him knock but hesitates. When she rises, he is gone. She searches and the watchmen strike and shame her. She asks others to tell him she is lovesick.

What it means: Neglect and delay wound closeness. Love requires readiness and pursuit after failure. God calls for repentance, courage, and restoration.

Song of Solomon 5:9–16 – Why He Is Worthy

What happens: The daughters ask what makes her beloved different. She describes his excellence from head to feet and calls him altogether desirable, her friend.

What it means: Honoring your spouse before others strengthens love. Clear memory of the beloved’s virtues fuels loyalty. Godly love joins romance and friendship.

Application

  • Receive intimacy as God’s gift with thankful joy.
  • When distance enters, act quickly to repair it.
  • Speak well of your spouse in public and private.

Bible

1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: 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, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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