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Song of Songs
The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.
Articles 166, showing 6
- 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.
Verses in the King James Version 14, showing 6
- Song of Songs 1:1
The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
- 1 Chronicles 25:7
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
- Nehemiah 12:46
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
- Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
- Psalms 137:3Explained
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
All 14 verses in KJV. Searching another translation? Try the World English Bible.