Through My Bible Yr 02 – November 26

Bible reading from Song of Songs 6:4 - 8:4 (EHV)

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-10fce76745a76900b9e52f5079e04520{
padding-bottom:10px;
}
body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-10fce76745a76900b9e52f5079e04520 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{
font-size:25px;
}
.av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-10fce76745a76900b9e52f5079e04520 .av-subheading{
font-size:15px;
}

Through My Bible Yr 02 – November 26Song of Songs 6:4 – 8:4

LISTEN HERE

Through My Bible – November 26

Song of Songs 6:4 – 8:4 (EHV)

https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-1126db.mp3

See series: Through My Bible

Song of Songs 6
You Are Beautiful
The Man

4 You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, [1]

lovely as Jerusalem,

majestic as troops with banners.

5 Turn your eyes away from me,

because they arouse me.

Your hair is like a flock of goats

flowing down from Gilead.

6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

coming up from the washing.

Each has its twin. Not one of them is alone.

7 Your cheeks behind your veil

are like the halves of a pomegranate.

8 There may be sixty queens,

and eighty concubines,

and virgins beyond number,

9 but my dove, my perfect one, is one of a kind.

She is the only daughter of her mother,

pure to the one who bore her.

The girls saw her and called her blessed.

The queens and concubines also praised her.

The Friends

10 Who is this woman that appears like the dawn,

beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun,

majestic as the stars in procession?

A Puzzling Interlude
The Woman or The Man [2]

11 I went down to the grove of nut trees,

to look at the new growth in the valley,

to see whether the vines had budded,

    whether the pomegranates had blossomed.

12 Before I realized it, my desire set me

among the chariots of my willing people. [3]

Beautiful From Bottom to Top
The Friends

13 Turn back, turn back, O Shulammite.

Turn back, turn back, so that we may look at you! [4]

The Woman [5]

1 Why would you look at the Shulammite.

    as at the dance of Mahanaim? [6]

The Friends or The Man

2 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

    O prince’s daughter!

Your hips are curved like a necklace,

the work of the hands of a craftsman.

3 Your navel is a round mixing bowl.

It never lacks blended wine.

Your belly is a mound of wheat, encircled by lilies.

4 Your two breasts are like two fawns,

    twins of a gazelle.

5 Your neck is like an ivory tower.

Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon,

    by the gate of Bat Rabbim. [7]

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

    overlooking Damascus.

6 Your head rises above you like Mount Carmel.

The flowing hair of your head is like purple.

The king is captivated by its curls.

The Man

7 How beautiful you are and how pleasing,

O loved one, daughter of delights! [8]

8 Your height is like that of the date palm,

and your breasts like clusters of fruit.

9 I said, “I will climb the date palm.

I will take hold of its bunches of fruit.”

May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine,

the fragrance of your breath like apples,

10a and your mouth like the best wine—

The Woman

10b —flowing to my lover,

gliding smoothly over lips and teeth. [9]

11 I belong to my lover,

and his desire is for me.

12 Come, my lover,

let us go to the fields.

Let us spend the night in the villages.

13 Let us go early to the vineyards.

We will see if the vines have budded,

if their blossoms have opened,

if the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give my love to you.

The mandrakes send out their fragrance.

At our door is every delicacy,

new as well as old,

that I have stored up for you, my lover.

He Embraces Me
The Woman

1 I wish that you were like a brother to me,

who was nursed at my mother’s breasts.

Then if I would meet you in public,

I could kiss you,

and no one would despise me.

2 I would lead you.

I would bring you to my mother’s house

    where she used to teach me.

I would give you spiced wine to drink,

the juice of my pomegranates.

3 His left arm is under my head,

and his right arm embraces me.

4 Daughters of Jerusalem, you must swear

that you will not arouse or awaken love

    until it so desires.

Footnotes

Song of Songs 6:4 Tirzah is a city in Israel. Its name means delightful.
Song of Songs 6:11 The identity of the speaker of these verses is uncertain.
Song of Songs 6:12 This is a difficult verse of uncertain meaning.
Song of Songs 6:13 English verse 6:13 is 7:1 in Hebrew. In the rest of chapter 7, the English verse numbers are one lower than the Hebrew verse numbers.
Song of Songs 7:1 The identity of the speaker of this verse is uncertain.
Song of Songs 7:1 Mahanaim is the name of a city. It means two camps. Here the term may refer to two lines of dancers.
Song of Songs 7:5 Bat Rabbim means Daughter of Nobles.
Song of Songs 7:7 The translation follows a textual variant supported by the ancient versions. The Hebrew text reads O love, with delights.
Song of Songs 7:10 The reading lips and teeth is well attested by the ancient versions. The Hebrew reads lips of sleepers.

#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{
height:10px;
}

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{
height:50px;
}

Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo