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Book 22 · Wisdom

Song of Songs

Song of Songs celebrates the joy, desire, beauty, and exclusivity of covenant love through poetic dialogue between lovers and the chorus around them. Its imagery of longing, presence, delight, and mutual praise honors embodied affection as a gift rather than a distraction, presenting love as powerful, vulnerable, and worthy of faithful keeping.

Within Scripture, Song of Songs gives wisdom literature a lyrical register, showing that holiness is not opposed to rightly ordered delight. It can be read first as a celebration of marital love and also as a text that has long nourished reflection on the devoted, covenantal love between God and his people, because it treats love as precious, jealous, and enduring.

Chapters8
Reading time~3 min·801 words
ThemesWisdom · Prayer · Praise · Longing
Opens with“This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.”
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  1. Chapter 1
    1. The Bride Confesses Her Lovevv. 1
    2. The Bridevv. 2-4
    3. The Bridevv. 5-7
    4. The Friendsvv. 8
    5. The Bridegroomvv. 9-10
    6. The Friendsvv. 11
    7. The Bridevv. 12-14
    8. The Bridegroomvv. 15
    9. The Bridevv. 16
    10. The Bridegroomvv. 17
  2. Chapter 2
    1. The Bridevv. 1
    2. The Bridegroomvv. 2
    3. The Bridevv. 3-13
    4. The Bridegroomvv. 14
    5. The Friendsvv. 15
    6. The Bridevv. 16-17
  3. Chapter 3The Bride’s Dream and Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day
    1. The Bride’s Dreamvv. 1-5
    2. Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Dayvv. 6-11
  4. Chapter 4The Bridegroom and The Bride
    1. The Bridegroomvv. 1-15
    2. The Bridevv. 16
  5. Chapter 5
    1. The Bridegroomvv. 1
    2. The Bridevv. 2-8
    3. The Friendsvv. 9
    4. The Bridevv. 10-16
  6. Chapter 6
    1. The Friendsvv. 1
    2. The Bridevv. 2-3
    3. The Bridegroomvv. 4-9
    4. The Friendsvv. 10
    5. The Bridegroomvv. 11-12
    6. The Friendsvv. 13
  7. Chapter 7Admiration by the Bridegroom and The Bride
    1. Admiration by the Bridegroomvv. 1-9
    2. The Bridevv. 10-13
  8. Chapter 8
    1. Longing for Her Belovedvv. 1-4
    2. The Friendsvv. 5
    3. The Bridevv. 6-7
    4. The Friendsvv. 8-9
    5. The Bridevv. 10-12
    6. The Bridegroomvv. 13
    7. The Bridevv. 14
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