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God of Renewals and Restorations
- Since the Fall, all relationships among human beings and other creation have wrecked that they did not exist to glorify nor reflect their Creator’s Nature – The love among the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- In the Old Testament, this Book – Song of Solomon is most spoken of by so many different commentators with different ways of explanations. Yet, this Song of Solomon or Song of Songs is surely to let the readers to reflect on their own relationships and encourage them to get started a God-approved and God-honoring relationship.
- Definitely, king Solomon and Shulamite have exhibited us what is an ideal relationship between a man and a women backed by God’s hearty approval.
- The real concern among Christian men and women is this: how many are really ready to start and stay in the right course of such an ideal relationship depicted in this Song? So many a Christian men and women are scarred in the past in their relationships for various reasons. Thus, they can be easily discouraged, and even experience despair to the point that they would not dare to venture a fresh new relationship that can bring glory to God and a full satisfaction to their own life together.
- Since the Fall, our Creator God is ever engaged in renewing and restoring the broken relationships among His creation, especially among His own images, that is, fallen and corrupt human beings. This Song of Songs gives us a sure hope for the better relationship, and marriage life. King Solomon is an ideal type of a man and a husband to show us the real power of love furnished by his Creator God.
- Primary task given to Adam is to take care of the Garden of Eden and keep God’s Covenant command not to eat the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Later upon his marriage to his female person, Adam must help her to keep God-given Covenant Command re. the forbidden fruit. Furthermore, Adam is blessed to have children with her and together have dominion over all creatures while cultivating the earth starting at the Garden of Eden.
- Sadly, Adam failed to listen to God. Instead, he listened to his wife. He was supposed to guide her to listen to God, but he listened to her than God.
- Prior to that tragic incident, Adam’s wife listened to Satan than her husband, and ultimately to God, her Creator.
- God is ever since engaged in restoring the fallen human race to their original state. When Jesus of Nazareth came as a perfect human being, as the Second and the Last Adam, He listened to God’s command and provided the foundation for a full restoration of the fallen human race to their original state. Such a redemptive love by the Father and the Son is well illustrated allegorically in this Song of Songs.
- Therefore, if we want to get benefited by Jesus’s redemptive work for us, we must find the biblical principles in this Song to apply them to our new relationships.
- The main concern for any Christian men and women is:
1) To recognize their respective real spiritual, mental, and the physical condition – corrupt state.
2) For men – Knowing their God-given mission is to work on the Garden of Eden and the rest of the World . Yet realizing the zenith of the creation is God-given wife so that his life-long mission is to study and cultivate his dear wife ceaselessly with the help of God. Sadly, for the fallen and corrupt husbands, the upcoming wedding and marriage is their final mission. Once they got married, the husbands are moving forward thinking their marriage has been accomplished since they had their wedding and honeymoon without any failures. King Solomon teaches all fallen and corrupt husbands that all husbands must keep their wife and her wellbeing in spiritual and physical realms as their life-long mission from God. Thus, ceaselessly to study his wife and improve his cultivation skills on quality marriage relationship are his main life-long mission from God. Indeed, his wedding day is the just a beginning of his life-long work to finish up God-given mission – cultivating and maturing his wife for God and His Honor and Glory.
3) For women – keep God-given innate nature, i.e., expertise on the relationships intact while willingly guided by the command and will of their Creator God. Then they can approach and prepare with a practical, righteous, and wise plan and resolution for their future marriage without an unbiblical and ideal fantasy as if they and their spouses are incorruptible human beings like angels.
Summary
- King Solomon initiated and gave love to the countrywoman, and she responded to his love.
- Solomon as a shepherd and a king won his bride.
- King Solomon chose his bride, a lifelong companion, a spiritual sister (5:1), student (8:2) and lover. Before marriage comes is the time to cultivate the capacities for all these facets of relationship. One who can be a close friend, an inquisitive student and a responsible sister or brother. None of these facets should be ignored nor sacrificed for other.
- King Solomon and his bride were certain that each was the perfect for the other (2:2-3; 6:8-9). They did not just date to see, “just to be sure”. Solomon carefully observed the woman in his leased vineyard and chose her to be his lover. Thus, there was a place for emotional love in their relationship. And such emotions of love will grow continually throughout all their relationship. Such a certainty and an ever-growing emotional love are true marks of God approved love relationship.
- King Solomon’s courtship of the romance with Shulamite went through two cycles of longing and patience and reward, becoming more intense in the process. Then their marriage life also went from spring to spring with a winter conflict in between. At the end of their second honeymoon, we could compare it with their wedding night and see how much progressed their love relationship with more openness and freedom between themselves.
- King Solomon gave his wife love in their sexual relationship. In marriage sexual expression of love is heartily approved, endorsed and encouraged by their Creator God (4:1-5:1), “Eat, O loved ones; drink and be drunk, O lovers.” Thus, sex without or apart from love is not to be found in any Christian marriage life. Neither God does endorse nor approve sex outside of a marriage.
- King Solomon showed an exemplary way as to reconciliation in conflict between the married couple. His wife’s neglect of him led to their temporary separation from each other (5:1-8). Like Christ, king Solomon waited patiently for his wife’s return, at the same time giving her no pressure or impression as if he gives her favor by waiting for her return. Rather, king Solomon covered her guilt and shame as if she was never wrong, and he has never seen her doing wrong. Such an unconditional forgiveness in tender consideration is well praised by God that we must emulate in our conflict.
Finally, Song of Songs gives all Christian men and women a realistic hope for an ideal and God-approved blessed marriage life! In this Song, for lovers the family of the bride had helped prepare her for marriage through both discipline and encouragement. Yet she herself assumed responsibility for her preparation for marriage, too, in determining to keep herself for her future husband. Patience, perseverance, and temperate love alone can accomplish it for those fallen and corrupt Christian men and women. Then in the providential arrangement of God she met her husband in very unexpected and unpromising circumstances. That’s the way God shows us how much He is concerned for each one of our life.
Song of Songs 1:1 – 8:14
1:1 The Song of Songs that is Solomon’s.
Shulamite’s First Days in the Palace (1:2-11)
Bride (in soliloquy)
2 Oh, that he would kiss me with kisses of his mouth,
for batter than wine is your affection.
3 For fragrance your perfumes are pleasing,
and perfume poured forth is your name.
Therefore, the maidens love you.
4 Draw me after you! Let us run together!
The king has brought me to his chambers.
Daughters of Jerusalem to King
We will rejoice and be glad in you.
We will extol your love (better) than wine.
Bride (in soliloquy)
Rightly do they love you.
to Daughters of Jerusalem
5 Dark am I but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not stare at me for I am dark;
the sun has scorched me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me.
They appointed me caretaker of the vineyards,
but of my own vineyard – that belongs to me –
I have not taken care.
(in soliloquy)
7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,
where you pasture your flock,
where you rest them at noon,
lest I become as a veiled woman by the flocks
of my companions.
Daughters of Jerusalem to Bride
8 If you do not know, O most beautiful among women,
go forth on the trail of the flock.
King to Bride
9 To a mare among the chariots of Pharaoh
I liken you my darling.
10 Lovely are your cheeks with ornaments
and your neck with strings of beads.
Daughters of Jerusalem to Bride
11 Chains of gold will we make for you
with points of silver.
In a Palace Royal Courtroom (1:12-14)
Bride (in soliloquy)
12 While the king was at his table,
my nard gave its fragrance.
13 A pouch of myrrh is my beloved to me
which lies all night between my breasts.
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyards of En-Gedi.
In the Countryside (1:15-2:7)
King to Bride
15 Behold, you are beautiful my darling; behold you are beautiful;
Your eyes are doves.
Bride to King
16 Behold, you are handsome my beloved; indeed you are pleasant.
And our couch is verdant.
17 The beams of our houses are cedars;
our rafters, cypresses.
2:1 I am a rose of Sharon,
a lily of the valley.
King to Bride
(in soliloquy)
2 As a lily among thorns,
thus is my darling among the young women.
Bride to King
3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my beloved among the young men.
In his shade I took great delight and sat down,
And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Bride (in soliloquy)
4 He has brought me to the banquet hall,
and his banner over me is love
(to King)
5 Sustain me with raisin cakes and refresh me with apples
for I am faint with love.
(in soliloquy)
6 Oh that his left hand were under my head and his right hand
embraced me.
To Daughters of Jerusalem
7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the hinds of the field
not to arouse, not to awaken love until it pleases.
On the Way to the Countryside (2:8-17)
Bride (in soliloquy)
8 Sound of my beloved,
Behold, he is coming,
leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9 My beloved is like gazelle or a young stag.
Look, he is standing behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.
10 My beloved responded and said to me,
“Arise my darling, my fair one, and come.
11 For behold, the winter has passed.
The rain is over and gone.
12 The blossoms have appeared in the land.
The time of singing has come,
And the cooing of the turtle dove is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree forms its figs,
and the vines in blossom give forth fragrance.
Arise, my darling, and my beautiful one, and come along.
14 O my dove, in the clefts of the rocks,
in the hidden places of the steep pathway,
Let me see your form; let me hear your voice.
For your voice is sweet, and your form is lovely.
King to Bride
15 Let us catch the foxes-the little foxes who ruin vineyards,
for our vineyards are in blossom.
Bride (in soliloquy)
16 My beloved is mine and I am his-he who pastures his flock
among the lilies.
17 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a
young stag on the mountains of separation.
Shulamite Waits for Her Fiance (3:1-5)
Bride (in soliloquy)
3:1 Upon my bed in the night I thought him whom my soul loves.
I sought him but did not find him.
2 I will arise now and go about in the city,
in the streets and in the squares.
I will seek him whom my soul loves.
I sought him but did not find him.
3 The watchmen who go about in the city found me.
(I said), “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed from them when I found him
whom my soul loves.
I held on to him and would not let him go
Until I brought him to the house of my mother,
to the room of the one who conceived me
to Daughters of Jerusalem
5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the hinds of the field
not to arouse, not to awaken love until it pleases.
The Wedding Day (3:6-11)
Poet
6 What is this coming from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
from the burning of myrrh and frankincense
made from all the scented powders of the merchant?
7 Behold! It is the couch of Solomon.
Sixty mighty men around it from the mighty men of Israel.
8 All of them wielders of the sword, trained for battle;
Each, his sword at his side
(for protection) from the terrors of the night.
9 A palanquin King Solomon made for himself
from the timber of Lebanon.
10 He made its posts of silver, its back of gold,
its seat of purple cloth, its interior inlaid
with expressions of love from daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon
with the crown with which his mother has crowned him
on the day of his wedding
and on the day of the gladness of his heart.
The Wedding Night (4:1-5:1)
King to Bride
4:1 Behold, you are beautiful, my darling; behold,
you are beautiful.
Your eyes are doves from behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats which descend
from Mount Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep
which have come up from the washing,
all of which are paired,
and not one of them is alone.
3 Like a scarlet thread are your lips,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
4 Like the tower of David is your neck, built for warfare-
a thousand shields hang upon it,
all the shields of the mighty men.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle,
which feed among the lilies.
6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
and hill of frankincense.
7 You are altogether fair, my love, and there is
no blemish in you.
8 With me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon come.
Journey from the peak of Amana,
from the peak of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions and mountains of leopards.
9 You have made my heart beat fast, my sister, my bride.
You have made my heart beat fast
with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How beautiful are your caresses, my sister, my bride.
How much better are your caresses than wine
and the fragrance of your perfumes than any spice.
11 Your lips, (my) bride, drip honey;
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
and the fragrance of your garments is like
the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 A garden locked is my sister, (my) bride.
A spring locked, a fountain sealed.
13 Your shoots are a paradise of pomegranates
with excellent fruits,
henna blossoms with nard plants,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes with all the choicest of spices,
15 a garden fountain, a well of living water
and streams flowing from Lebanon.
Bride to King
16 Awake, O north wind.
And come, wind of the south.
Blow upon my garden and let its spices flow forth.
May my beloved come to his garden and eat
its excellent fruit.
King to Bride
5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey.
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
A Problem Arises (5:2-6:3)
God (Poet) to Bridegroom and Bride
5:1 Eat, O loved ones; drink and be drunk, O lovers.
Bride to Daughters of Jerusalem
2 I was asleep but my heart was awake.
The sound of my beloved knocking,
“Open to me my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one,
for my hair is filled with dew; my hair, with damp
of the night.”
3 I had put off my tunic; must I put it on again?
I had washed my feet; must I soil them again?
4 My beloved withdrew his hand from the door,
and my feelings were aroused for him.
5 I arose to open to my beloved
and my hand dripped with myrrh
and my fingers with flowing myrrh upon the handles
of the bolt.
6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone.
My soul had gone out to him when he spoke.
I sought him but did not find him;
I called out to him, but he did not answer me.
7 The watchmen who go about in the city found me.
They struck me; they bruised me.
They took my shawl from upon me-those guardians of the
walls.
8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
if you find my beloved-as to what you will tell him-
(tell him) that I am faint with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem to Bride
9 What is your beloved more than another lover,
O fairest among women?
What is your beloved more than another lover,
that so you adjure us?
Bride to Daughters of Jerusalem
10 My beloved is dazzlingly ruddy,
distinguished among ten thousand.
11 His head is pure gold;
His locks, palm leaves, black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water,
bathed in milk and reposed in their setting.
13 His cheeks are a bed of balsam, a raised bed of spices.
His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are cylinders of gold set with jewels.
15 His legs are alabaster pillars set upon pedestals
of fine gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
16 His mouth is sweetness,
And all of him is wonderful.
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
O daughters of Jerusalem.
Daughters of Jerusalem to Bride
6:1 Where has your beloved gone, O fairest among women?
Where has your beloved turned, that we may
Seek him with you?
Bride to Daughters of Jerusalem
2 My beloved has gone to his garden, to beds of balsam,
to pasture his flock among the gardens
and to gather lilies.
3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine-the one
who pastures his flock among the lilies.
The Problem Resolved (6:4-13)
King to Bride
4 Fair you are, my darling, as Tirzah,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.
5 (Turn your eyes from me for they arouse me.)
Your hair is like a flock of goats which descend from Gilead.
6 Your teeth are like a flock of young lambs,
which have come up from the washing,
all of which are paired,
and not one among them is alone.
7 Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines
and maidens without number;
9 (But) unique is she-my dove, my perfect one;
unique is she to her mother;
pure is she to the one who bore her.
The daughters saw her and called her blessed;
The queens and concubines praised her.
King to Bride
10 Who is the looking forth like the dawn?
fair as the moon,
pure as the sun,
awesome as an army with banners?
Bride in Soliloquy
11 To the garden of nut trees I had gone down
to see the fresh shoots of the ravine,
to see whether the vine had budded or the pomegranates
had bloomed.
12 Before I was aware, my soul set me among the chariots
of my people, a prince.
Daughters of Jerusalem to Bride
13 Return, return, O Shulamite;
Return, return, that we may gaze upon you.
King to Daughters of Jerusalem
How you gaze upon Shulamite
as at a dance of Mahanaim.
In the Royal Bedroom (7:1-10)
King to Bride
7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter.
The curves of your thighs are like ornaments,
The work of the hands of an artist.
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet never lacking mixed wine.
Your abdomen is a stack of wheat enclosed with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of gazelle.
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory.
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of the populous city.
Your nose is like a tower in Lebanon keeping watch
over Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you as Carmel,
And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads.
The king is held captive by your tresses.
6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are-love in (your)
exquisite delights.
7 This your stature is comparable to a palm tree,
and your breasts to its clusters.
8 I say, “I will climb the palm tree;
I will take hold of its fruit stalks;
Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine
and the fragrance of your breath like apples
9 and your mouth like the best wine,
Bride (to King)
going down smoothly for my beloved,
flowing gently through the lips of the sleeping ones.
Bride (to King)
10 I am my beloved’s and his desire is for me.
In the Countryside for a Second Honeymoon (7:11-8:14)
11 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country.
Let us spend the night in the villages.
12 Let us rise early to the vineyards.
Let us see whether the vine has budded
and its blossoms have opened
and whether the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give my caresses to you.
13 The mandrakes have given forth fragrance
and over our doors are all choice fruits-
both new and old, which I have stored up for
you, my beloved.
Bride to King
8:1 Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at the breasts of my mother.
If I found you outdoors I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me either.
2 I would lead you;
I would bring you to the house of my mother.
You would instruct me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar
of my pomegranate.
3 Oh may his left hand be under my hand and his right hand
embrace me.
to Daughters of Jerusalem
4 I adjure you, O daughter of Jerusalem,
not to arouse, not to awaken love until it pleases.
Poet
5 Who is this coming from the wilderness, leaning
on her beloved?
Bride to King
Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;
there your mother was in labor with you;
there she was in labor and gave you birth.
6 Put me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm.
For strong as death is love.
Relentless as a Sheol is jealousy.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the flame of YAHWEH.
7 Many waters cannot extinguish this love
and rivers will not drown it.
If a man were to give all the possessions of his house
for love, he would be utterly despised.
Brothers of Bride
8 We have a little sister and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister for the day on which
she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we shall build on her a battlement of silver,
But if she is a door,
we shall enclose her with planks of cedar.
Bride (to all)
10 I was a wall and my breasts were like towers.
Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.
11 A vineyard belonged to Solomon at Baal Hamon.
He gave the vineyard to caretakers; each one was to bring
a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
12 My own vineyard belongs to me.
Bride to King
The thousand re for you, O Solomon, and two hundred for the caretakers of the fruit.
King to Bride
13 O you who dwell in the gardens, (my) companions are listening for your
voice. Let me hear it.
Bride to King
14 Hurry, my beloved, and be gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
