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0:00 Song of Solomon 1. The Brideâs Love for Her Beloved
2:12 Song of Solomon 2. The Lily Among Thorns & The Voice of My Beloved
4:22 Song of Solomon 3. The Brideâs Dream and Solomonâs Wedding Procession
6:07 Song of Solomon 4. The Brideâs Beauty Described by the Groom
8:31 Song of Solomon 5. The Bride Searches for Her Beloved
11:04 Song of Solomon 6. The Beauty of the Bride & The Return of Love
12:58 Song of Solomon 7. The Groomâs Delight in His Bride
14:47 Song of Solomon 8. Love Is as Strong as Death
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The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon or Canticle of Canticles, is a poetic and evocative collection found in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. Traditionally attributed to King Solomon, although modern scholarship generally views it as a later work, the text likely emerged between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE, during the Persian or early Hellenistic period. It stands apart within biblical literature, celebrated for its lyrical beauty, emotional intensity, and distinctive focus on romantic and erotic love.
The title "Song of Songs" signifies its position as the greatest among songs, reflecting a Hebrew literary convention used to denote superlative importance. Unlike other biblical books primarily concerned with religious instruction, historical narrative, or moral guidance, the Song of Songs presents itself as a passionate dialogue between lovers. It vividly portrays the intensity of human love, desire, longing, physical attraction, and emotional intimacy through rich poetic imagery drawn from the natural world, such as gardens, vineyards, perfumes, spices, animals, and landscapes.
The text consists of dialogues and monologues exchanged between a woman (often referred to as the Shulamite), her beloved, and occasionally a chorus of observers or companions. It celebrates mutual affection and expresses deep admiration for physical beauty, emotional bonds, and romantic passion. The bookâs frank depiction of sensuality and eroticism has historically sparked diverse interpretive approaches.
In Jewish and Christian traditions, the Song of Songs has often been understood allegorically or symbolicallyâinterpreted as representing God's love for Israel, Christ's love for the Church, or the soulâs mystical union with the divine. Conversely, contemporary scholars and readers frequently interpret it in a more literal or literary manner, viewing it as a celebration of human love, sexuality, and relational intimacy.
Contextually, the Song of Songs reflects ancient Near Eastern literary traditions of love poetry, sharing similarities with Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Canaanite poetry, which also emphasized romantic and erotic themes.
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0:00 Song of Solomon 1. The Brideâs Love for Her Beloved
2:12 Song of Solomon 2. The Lily Among Thorns & The Voice of My Beloved
4:22 Song of Solomon 3. The Brideâs Dream and Solomonâs Wedding Procession
6:07 Song of Solomon 4. The Brideâs Beauty Described by the Groom
8:31 Song of Solomon 5. The Bride Searches for Her Beloved
11:04 Song of Solomon 6. The Beauty of the Bride & The Return of Love
12:58 Song of Solomon 7. The Groomâs Delight in His Bride
14:47 Song of Solomon 8. Love Is as Strong as Death
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The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon or Canticle of Canticles, is a poetic and evocative collection found in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. Traditionally attributed to King Solomon, although modern scholarship generally views it as a later work, the text likely emerged between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE, during the Persian or early Hellenistic period. It stands apart within biblical literature, celebrated for its lyrical beauty, emotional intensity, and distinctive focus on romantic and erotic love.
The title "Song of Songs" signifies its position as the greatest among songs, reflecting a Hebrew literary convention used to denote superlative importance. Unlike other biblical books primarily concerned with religious instruction, historical narrative, or moral guidance, the Song of Songs presents itself as a passionate dialogue between lovers. It vividly portrays the intensity of human love, desire, longing, physical attraction, and emotional intimacy through rich poetic imagery drawn from the natural world, such as gardens, vineyards, perfumes, spices, animals, and landscapes.
The text consists of dialogues and monologues exchanged between a woman (often referred to as the Shulamite), her beloved, and occasionally a chorus of observers or companions. It celebrates mutual affection and expresses deep admiration for physical beauty, emotional bonds, and romantic passion. The bookâs frank depiction of sensuality and eroticism has historically sparked diverse interpretive approaches.
In Jewish and Christian traditions, the Song of Songs has often been understood allegorically or symbolicallyâinterpreted as representing God's love for Israel, Christ's love for the Church, or the soulâs mystical union with the divine. Conversely, contemporary scholars and readers frequently interpret it in a more literal or literary manner, viewing it as a celebration of human love, sexuality, and relational intimacy.
Contextually, the Song of Songs reflects ancient Near Eastern literary traditions of love poetry, sharing similarities with Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Canaanite poetry, which also emphasized romantic and erotic themes.
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00:00THE SONG OF SOLOMON
00:01CHAPTER 1
00:03THE SONG OF SONGS, WHICH IS SOLOMON'S
00:07Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,
00:11for thy love is better than wine.
00:14Because of the savour of thy good ointments,
00:17thy name is as ointment poured forth,
00:20therefore do the virgins love thee.
00:23Draw me, we will run after thee.
00:26The king hath brought me into his chambers,
00:28we will be glad and rejoice in thee,
00:31we will remember thy love more than wine,
00:34the upright love thee.
00:37I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
00:41as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
00:45Look not upon me because I am black,
00:48because the sun hath looked upon me.
00:50My mother's children were angry with me,
00:52they made me the keeper of the vineyards,
00:55but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
00:57Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,
01:00where thou feedest,
01:01where thou makest thy flock to rust at noon,
01:05for why should I be as one
01:07that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
01:10If thou know not, O thou fairest among women,
01:13go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock,
01:16and feed thy kids beside the shepherd's tents.
01:20I have compared thee, O love,
01:22to a company of horses and pharaoh's chariots.
01:24Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels,
01:28thy neck with chains of gold.
01:31We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
01:35While the king sitteth at his table,
01:37my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
01:41A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.
01:44He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
01:47My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphor
01:51in the vineyards of Engidai.
01:54Behold, thou art fair, my love,
01:57behold, thou art fair,
01:59thou hast dove's eyes.
02:01Behold, thou art fair, my beloved,
02:03yea, pleasant,
02:05also our bed is green.
02:07The beams of our house are cedar,
02:09and are rafters of fir.
02:11Chapter 2
02:13I am the rose of Sharon,
02:16and the lily of the valleys.
02:18As the lily among thorns,
02:20so is my love among the daughters.
02:23As the apple tree among the trees of the wood,
02:26so is my beloved among the sons.
02:29I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
02:32and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
02:35He brought me to the banqueting house,
02:37and his banner over me was love.
02:40Stay me with flagons,
02:42comfort me with apples,
02:43for I am sick of love.
02:46His left hand is under my head,
02:48and his right hand doth embrace me.
02:51I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
02:53by thy rose and by the hinds of the field,
02:57that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please.
03:01The voice of my beloved,
03:03behold, he cometh leaping up in the mountains,
03:06skipping up in the hills.
03:07My beloved is like a roe or a young heart.
03:11Behold, he standeth behind our wall,
03:13he looketh forth at the windows,
03:15showing himself through the lattice.
03:18My beloved spake and said unto me,
03:20Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
03:24For lo, the winter is past,
03:26the rain is over and gone,
03:28the flowers appear on the earth,
03:30the time of the singing of birds is come,
03:32and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
03:35The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
03:38and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
03:42Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
03:45O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock,
03:48and the secret places of the stairs,
03:51let me see thy countenance,
03:53let me hear thy voice.
03:55For sweet is thy voice,
03:57and thy countenance is comely.
03:59Take us the foxes, the little foxes,
04:02that spoil the vines,
04:03for our vines have tender grapes.
04:06My beloved is mine, and I am his.
04:10He feedeth among the lilies.
04:13Until the day break,
04:14and the shadows flee away,
04:16turn, my beloved,
04:17and be thou like a roe or a young heart
04:20upon the mountains of Bether.
04:22Chapter 3
04:24By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loved.
04:28I sought him, but I found him not.
04:31I will rise now,
04:32and go about the city in the streets,
04:34and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth.
04:38I sought him, but I found him not.
04:41The watchman that go about the city found me,
04:44to whom I said,
04:45Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
04:48I was but a little that I passed from them,
04:50But I found him whom my soul loveth.
04:54I held him, and would not let him go,
04:57Until I had brought him into my mother's house,
05:00And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
05:03I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
05:06By the rows and by the hinds of the field,
05:09That ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please.
05:13Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness
05:15Like pillars of smoke,
05:17Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
05:19With all powders of the merchant?
05:22Behold his bed, which is Solomon's.
05:25Threescore valiant men are about it,
05:27Of the valiant of Israel.
05:29They all hold swords, being expert in war.
05:33Every man hath his sword upon his thigh,
05:35Because of fear in the night.
05:37King Solomon made himself a chariot
05:40Of the wood of Lebanon.
05:42He made the pillars thereof of silver,
05:45The bottom thereof of gold,
05:47The covering of it of purple,
05:49The midst thereof being paved with love
05:51For the daughters of Jerusalem.
05:54Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion,
05:56And behold King Solomon with the crown
05:59Wherewith his mother crowned him
06:01In the day of his espousals,
06:03And in the day of the gladness of his heart.
06:06Chapter 4
06:09Behold thou art fair, my love,
06:12Behold thou art fair,
06:14Thou hast dove's eyes within thy locks,
06:17Thy hair is as a flock of goats
06:19That appear from Mount Gilead,
06:21Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep
06:23That are even shorn,
06:25Which came up from the washing,
06:27Whereof every one bear twins,
06:29And none is barren among them.
06:31Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet,
06:33And thy speech is comely,
06:35Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
06:38Within thy locks,
06:40Thy neck is like the tower of David
06:42Builded for an armory,
06:44Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers,
06:47All shields of mighty men,
06:49Thy two breasts are like two young rows
06:51That are twins,
06:52Which feed among the lilies.
06:55Until the day break and the shadows flee away,
06:57I will get me to the mountain of Myrrh,
07:00And to the hill of frankincense.
07:02Thou art all fair, my love,
07:05There is no spot in thee.
07:08Come with me from Lebanon,
07:09My spouse, with me from Lebanon,
07:12Look from the top of Amena,
07:14From the top of Sheener,
07:16And Hermon,
07:17From the lions' dens,
07:19From the mountains of the leopards.
07:21Thou hast ravished my heart,
07:22My sister, my spouse,
07:24Thou hast ravished my heart,
07:26With one of thine eyes,
07:28With one chain of thy neck.
07:31How fair is thy love,
07:32My sister, my spouse!
07:34How much better is thy love than wine,
07:36And the smell of thine ointments
07:38Than old spices!
07:40By lips, O my spouse,
07:41Drop as the honeycomb,
07:43Honey and milk are under thy tum,
07:45And the smell of thy garments
07:47Is like the smell of Lebanon.
07:49A garden enclosed is my sister,
07:52My spouse,
07:53A spring shut up,
07:54A fountain sealed.
07:56Thy plants are an orchard
07:58Of pomegranates,
07:59With pleasant fruits,
08:01Camphor with spikenard,
08:03Spikenard and saffron,
08:04Calamus and cinnamon,
08:06With the trees of frankincense,
08:08Myrrh and aloes,
08:10With all the chief spices,
08:12A fountain of gardens,
08:14A well of living waters,
08:16And streams from Lebanon.
08:19Awake, O north wind,
08:20And come thou south,
08:22Blow upon my garden,
08:23That the spices thereof
08:25May flow out.
08:26Let my beloved come into his garden,
08:29And eat his pleasant fruits.
08:32Chapter 5
08:33I am come into my garden,
08:36My sister, my spouse.
08:37I have gathered my myrrh
08:39With my spice,
08:40I have eaten my honeycomb
08:42With my honey.
08:43I have drunk my wine
08:44With my milk.
08:46Eat, O friends,
08:47Drink, yea, drink abundantly,
08:49O beloved.
08:50I sleep,
08:51But my heart waketh.
08:53It is the voice of my beloved
08:54That knock of saying,
08:56Open to me my sister,
08:58My love, my dove,
08:59My undefiled,
09:00For my head is filled with dew,
09:02And my locks with the drocks
09:04Of the night.
09:05I have put off my coat,
09:06How shall I put it on?
09:08I have washed my feet,
09:09How shall I defile them?
09:11My beloved put in his hand,
09:14By the hole of the door,
09:15And my bowels were moved for him.
09:18I rose up to open to my beloved,
09:20And my hands dropped with myrrh,
09:23And my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh
09:25Upon the handles of the lock.
09:28I opened to my beloved,
09:29But my beloved had withdrawn himself
09:32And was gone.
09:33My soul failed when he spake,
09:35I sought him,
09:36But I could not find him.
09:38I called him,
09:39But he gave me no answer.
09:41The watchmen that went about the city
09:43Found me,
09:44They smote me,
09:45They wounded me,
09:46The keepers of the walls
09:47Took away my veil from me.
09:49I charge you,
09:50O daughters of Jerusalem,
09:52If ye find my beloved,
09:54That ye tell him
09:55That I am sick with love.
09:58What is thy beloved
09:59More than another beloved,
10:01O thou fairest among women?
10:03What is thy beloved
10:04More than another beloved,
10:06That thou dost so charge us?
10:08My beloved is white and ruddy,
10:10The chiefest among ten thousand.
10:13His head is as the most fine gold,
10:16His locks are bushy and black as a raven,
10:19His eyes are the eyes of doves
10:21By the rivers of waters,
10:23Washed with milk and fitly set.
10:25His cheeks are as a bed of spices,
10:28As sweet flowers,
10:29His lips like lilies,
10:31Dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.
10:34His hands are as gold rings
10:37Set with the burl,
10:38His belly is as bright ivory
10:41Overlaid with sapphires,
10:43His legs are as pillars of marble
10:45Set upon sockets of fine gold,
10:48His countenance is as Lebanon,
10:51Excellent as the cedars,
10:53His mouth is most sweet,
10:55Yea, he is altogether lovely.
10:58This is my beloved,
11:00And this is my friend,
11:02O daughters of Jerusalem.
11:03Chapter 6
11:06Whither is thy beloved gone,
11:09O thou fairest among women?
11:11Whither is thy beloved turned aside,
11:14That we may seek him with thee?
11:16My beloved is gone down unto his garden,
11:19To the beds of spices,
11:20To feed in the gardens,
11:22And to gather lilies.
11:24I am my beloved's,
11:25And my beloved is mine,
11:27He feedeth among the lilies.
11:29Thou art beautiful,
11:31O my love,
11:33As Tirzah,
11:34Comely as Jerusalem,
11:36Terrible as an army with banners.
11:38Turn away thine eyes from thee,
11:41For they have overcome thee.
11:43Thy hair is as a flock of goats
11:45That appear from Gilead.
11:47Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep,
11:49Which go up from washing,
11:51Whereof every one beareth twins,
11:53And there is not one barren among them.
11:57As a piece of a pomegranate
11:58Are thy temples within thy locks.
12:01There are threescore queens,
12:03And fourscore concubines,
12:05And virgins without number.
12:07My dove, my undefiled,
12:10Is but one.
12:11She is the only one of her mother,
12:13She is the choice one of her that bear her.
12:16The daughters saw her and blessed her,
12:19Yea, the queens and the concubines,
12:21And they praised her.
12:23Who is she that looketh forth
12:25Is the morning, fair as the moon,
12:27Clear as the sun,
12:28And terrible as an army with banners?
12:31I went down into the garden of nuts
12:33To see the fruits of the valley,
12:35And to see whether the vine flourished,
12:38And the pomegranates budded.
12:39Or ever I was aware,
12:42My soul made me like the chariots of Amenadab.
12:46Return, return, O Shulamite,
12:49Return, return, that we may look upon thee.
12:52What will ye see in the Shulamite?
12:55As it were the company of two armies.
12:57Chapter 7
12:59How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,
13:03O prince's daughter!
13:04The joints of thy thighs are like jewels,
13:07The work of the hands of a cunning craftsman.
13:10Thy navel is like a round goblet,
13:12Which wanteth not liquor.
13:14Thy belly is like an heap of wheat,
13:16Set about with lilies.
13:18Thy two breasts are like two young rows
13:20That are twins.
13:22Thy neck is as a tower of ivory,
13:24Thine eyes like the fish-pools in Hashban.
13:28By the gate of Bath-Rabham,
13:30Thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon,
13:33Which looketh toward Damascus.
13:35Thine head upon thee is like Carmel,
13:38And the hair of thine head like purple.
13:41The king is held in the galleries.
13:43How fair and how pleasant art thou,
13:46O love for delights!
13:48This thy stature is like to a palm-tree,
13:51And thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
13:55I said I will go up to the palm-tree,
13:57I will take hold of the boughs thereof.
13:59Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine,
14:04And the smell of thy nose like apples,
14:07And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine
14:09For my beloved, that goeth down sweetly,
14:12Causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
14:15I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
14:19Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field,
14:23Let us lodge in the villages.
14:25Let us get up early to the vineyards,
14:27Let us see if the vine flourish,
14:29Whether the tender grape appear,
14:31And the pomegranates bud forth.
14:34There will I give thee my loves.
14:36The mandrakes give a smell,
14:39And at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits,
14:42New and old,
14:43Which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
14:47Chapter 8
14:49O that thou wert as my brother,
14:52That sucked the breasts of my mother,
14:54When I should find thee without,
14:56I would kiss thee,
14:57Yea, I should not be despised.
15:00I would lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house,
15:03Who would instruct me,
15:04I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine
15:07Of the juice of my pomegranate.
15:09His left hand should be under my head,
15:11And his right hand should embrace me.
15:14I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
15:16That ye stir not up,
15:18Nor awake my love,
15:19Until he please.
15:21Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
15:23Leaning upon her beloved?
15:25I raise thee up under the apple tree,
15:28There thy mother brought thee forth,
15:30There she brought thee forth that bear thee.
15:32Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
15:35As a seal upon thine arm,
15:37For love is strong as death,
15:40Jealousy is cruel as the grave,
15:42The coals thereof are coals of fire,
15:44Which hath a most vehement flame.
15:47Many waters cannot quench love,
15:49Neither can the floods drown it.
15:51If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
15:54It would utterly be condemned.
15:57We have a little sister,
15:58And she hath no breasts.
16:00What shall we do for our sister,
16:02In the day when she shall be spoken for?
16:04If she be a wall,
16:05We will build upon her a palace of silver,
16:09And if she be a door,
16:10We will enclose her with boards of cedar.
16:13I am a wall,
16:14And my breasts like towers,
16:16Then was I in his eyes,
16:18As one that found favor.
16:20Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Haman,
16:23He let out the vineyards unto keepers.
16:26Every one of the fruit thereof
16:27Was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
16:30My vineyard which is mine is before me.
16:34Thou, O Solomon,
16:35Must have a thousand,
16:37And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
16:40Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
16:42The companions hearken to thy voice,
16:45Cause me to hear it.
16:46Make haste, my beloved,
16:48And be thou like to a roe,
16:51Or to a young heart,
16:52Upon the mountains of spices.
17:00And those that keep the fruit thereof,
17:11And she is bring soap inăŁăœuko to bear it.
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