The Book of Song of Solomon
The Song of Solomon is a string of love poems that celebrate the goodness, beauty, and faithfulness of married love. A bride and her beloved sing to and about one another, longing, seeking, finding, and rejoicing, while the daughters of Jerusalem listen in. Scripture is not embarrassed by such love; it places this song in the canon to honor desire rightly ordered within covenant, and to remind us that intimacy is a gift from the God who made us male and female. From earliest times Christians have also heard in it an echo of a greater love—the devotion of Christ for his bride, the church—without forcing every line. Read slowly and reverently, the Song teaches us to treasure love that is exclusive, faithful, and strong as death.
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Whole-Book Overview
See the whole arc of the Song, from first longing through union, separation, and reunion, to its great declaration that love is strong as death.
Open overview → Chapter 1Better Than Wine
The Bride awakens to longing, praises her beloved above all, and the lovers begin to sing of one another's beauty and delight.
Open study → Chapter 2Rise Up and Come Away
Spring arrives and the Beloved calls the Bride out to himself, as she rests in his love and asks that love not be awakened too soon.
Open study → Chapter 3The One My Soul Loves
The Bride seeks her beloved through the night and holds fast when she finds him, and a royal wedding procession comes up from the wilderness.
Open study → Chapter 4All Beautiful, My Bride
The Bridegroom lavishes praise on the Bride from head to heart, calls her a locked garden, and she invites him to come into his garden.
Open study → Chapter 5I Sought, but Did Not Find
The Bride hesitates at her beloved's knock and loses him for a night, then searches, suffers, and praises him as altogether lovely.
Open study → Chapter 6Mine and His Again
The Bride finds her beloved once more and the two reaffirm their belonging, as he praises her as unique and incomparable among all.
Open study → Chapter 7I Am My Beloved's
The Bridegroom praises his bride's beauty with joy, and she gladly gives herself to him, inviting him out to the vineyards and the fields.
Open study → Chapter 8Love Strong as Death
The Song reaches its summit as love is sealed upon the heart and declared stronger than death, a flame that no flood can quench and no wealth can buy.
Open study →Study together
Gather a group, work through a chapter at a time, and journey through Song of Solomon together. Invite a friend to join you.