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Song of Solomon 8:1–4 – Public Affection and Patient Restraint

What happens: She wishes he were like a brother so she could kiss him openly without shame. She would bring him to her mother’s house and give him spiced wine. She repeats the charge not to awaken love until it pleases.

What it means: Love seeks both privacy and appropriate public honor. Family and community roots matter. God calls for restraint that keeps love wise and pure.

Song of Solomon 8:5–7 – Love’s Unquenchable Strength

What happens: They come up from the wilderness as she leans on him. Under the apple tree she awakened love. She asks to be set as a seal on his heart and arm, for love is strong as death and many waters cannot quench it.

What it means: Covenant love rests on lasting commitment and loyalty. True love claims and is claimed. God made marital love powerful and permanent.

Song of Solomon 8:8–10 – Guarding the Young

What happens: Brothers discuss a younger sister without breasts, planning how to protect her when she is spoken for. She says she is a wall and finds favor before him.

What it means: Families help guard purity and prepare the young for marriage. Self-control and dignity honor God. Wise protection leads to peace and esteem.

Song of Solomon 8:11–12 – Better than Wealth

What happens: Solomon has a vineyard for profit, but she speaks of her own vineyard as hers to give. She values love over money.

What it means: Love cannot be bought or rented. God’s gifts are not commodities. Faithful affection outranks riches.

Song of Solomon 8:13–14 – Final Call and Longing

What happens: He longs to hear her voice. She calls him to hurry like a gazelle on the mountains of spices.

What it means: Love ends with desire renewed and hope forward. God’s design lets affection keep growing. Ongoing pursuit marks a healthy marriage.

Application

  • Treat love as a seal of lifelong commitment, not a feeling to sample.
  • Guard and guide the young toward wise, pure relationships.
  • Value covenant love over wealth, and keep pursuing each other daily.

Bible

1O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

2I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

5Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

11Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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