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• Song of Songs 2Bible

  Song of Songs 2 is a seventeen-verse chapter in which two lovers sing of each other through images of flowers and trees, and in which the man calls the woman to come away with him now that spring has arrived.

• Song of Songs 6Bible

  Song of Songs 6 contains a question about where the departed beloved has gone, the woman's declaration of their mutual belonging, the man's song praising the woman as his one and only love, and a passage that calls to the "Shulamite."

• Song of Songs 3Bible

  Song of Songs 3 is the chapter in which a woman searches by night for the one she loves and finds him. It then describes Solomon's palanquin procession coming up from the wilderness and celebrates his wedding day.

• Song of Songs 7Bible

  Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.

• Song of Songs 5Bible

  Song of Songs 5 opens with the bridegroom's song upon entering his garden. It then tells how the bride, failing to receive her beloved when he comes to her at night, loses him, searches for him, and sings of his beauty to the daughters of Jerusalem.

• Song of Songs 4Bible

  Song of Songs 4 is a love song in which the bridegroom praises the bride's eyes, hair, lips, neck, and other features by comparing them to scenes from nature and to spices, and likens her to a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. In the final verse the bride invites her beloved into her garden.

• Song of Solomon 1Bible

  Song of Solomon 1 is the first chapter of the Song of Solomon. Its seventeen verses open with a superscription and continue with songs in which a woman and her beloved express their longing for and praise of each other.

• Song of Solomon 8Bible

  The final chapter of the Song of Solomon, containing the woman's longing for her beloved, the confession that "love is strong as death," the account of the little sister and the vineyards, and a closing call to the beloved.

• Psalm 124Bible

  Psalm 124 is one of the Songs of Ascents. In eight verses, this communal psalm of thanksgiving reflects that Israel would have been swallowed up by its enemies had the LORD not been on its side, and it praises God for deliverance.

• Shulamite WomanPeople

  The Shulamite woman is the woman called "the Shulamite" in the Old Testament book of the Song of Songs. She is commonly understood to be the female speaker who exchanges songs of love with her beloved in the book.

• ParallelismBible

  Parallelism is the characteristic mode of expression in Hebrew poetry, in which the thought of one line is paired with a following line that restates it, contrasts with it, or adds to it. It appears widely in the poetry of the Old Testament, including Psalms and Proverbs, and in the prophetic books.

• Wisdom LiteratureBible

  Wisdom literature is the body of biblical writings that addresses the principles governing life, suffering, and the meaning of human existence within a faith grounded in the fear of God. In the Old Testament the term refers chiefly to Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.

• Psalm 131Bible

  Psalm 131 is one of the Songs of Ascents, a short psalm of three verses expressing a heart that has set aside pride and excessive ambition and rests quietly in God like a weaned child.

• PsalmsBible

  The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 prayers and songs of praise in the Old Testament. Used in the worship of ancient Israel, it remains one of the most widely used books of the Bible in the worship and personal devotional life of the church today.

• Song of Songs 5:2Bible Verses

  A scene in the Song of Songs in which the beloved, drenched with the night dew, asks the sleeping woman to open the door to him. The verse is read as a poem celebrating love between a man and a woman, and also as a picture of Christ knocking at the door of the church and of the believer's heart, a reading frequently cited in preaching.

• Song of Songs 2:16Bible Verses

  Song of Songs 2:16 is a verse in which the woman declares that she and her beloved belong to each other. It is often cited and has been read both as a song of marital love and as a picture of the relationship between God and his people or between Christ and the church.

• Song of Solomon 8:6–7Bible Verses

  This passage, which declares that love is strong as death and that many waters cannot quench its fire, forms the climax of the Song of Solomon. It is a favorite reading at wedding services and also exemplifies a long-standing interpretive question: whether the Song should be read as a song of human love or as a portrayal of the love between God and his people.

• Psalm 127:1Bible Verses

  A declaration that unless the LORD builds the house, the labor of those who build it is in vain. It is one of the verses most often cited at the beginning of a church building project, a new household, or a business venture, and it is read as raising the question of how human effort relates to the sovereignty of God.

• Psalm 121:1–2Bible Verses

  Psalm 121 opens with the psalmist lifting his eyes to the hills and asking where his help will come from, followed by the answer, "My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." The psalm celebrates God's protection along the road of travel and pilgrimage, and interpreters differ over what the "hills" signify.