Friday August 24, 2018 – Song of Songs 8:5-14

Song of Songs 8:5-14 – NIV

Friends

⁵ Who is this coming up from the wilderness
    leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.
⁶ Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
    its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.
⁷ Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it would be utterly scorned.

Friends

⁸ We have a little sister,
    and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
    on the day she is spoken for?
⁹ If she is a wall,
    we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
    we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

She

¹⁰ I am a wall,
    and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
    like one bringing contentment.
¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;
    he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
    a thousand shekels of silver.
¹² But my own vineyard is mine to give;
    the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
    and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.

He

¹³ You who dwell in the gardens
    with friends in attendance,
    let me hear your voice!

She

¹⁴ Come away, my beloved,
    and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag
    on the spice-laden mountains.

Meditate on this passage by asking the following questions.

1) What stands out to you in the passage?

2) What questions do you have about the passage?

3) What do you need to change or do in response to this passage?

4) What should you pray for in light of this passage?