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Solomon's Song 8 Summary
Covenant Love and the Bridegroom's Return
The bride wishes her beloved were as her brother so she could kiss him without disgrace, and would bring him to her mother's house to be instructed in love. She again charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to stir up or awake her love. The two come up from the wilderness, the bride leaning upon her beloved, as she recalls being raised under an apple tree where her mother brought her forth. The bride calls herself a wall with breasts like towers, and declares herself found favor in her beloved's eyes. She references Solomon's vineyard at Baal-hamon, letting it to keepers for a thousand pieces of silver, but her own vineyard is before her—Solomon may have a thousand and keepers two hundred. The bride finally calls her beloved to make haste and be like a roe or young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Key themes
Key verses
Solomon's Song 8:1
“O 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.”
Solomon's Song 8:6
“Set 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.”
Solomon's Song 8:10
“I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.”
Solomon's Song 8:14
“Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.”
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