Old Testament

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. < Song of Solomon 5:9 | > Song of Solomon 5:11 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:10 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be brief, but its […]

His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. < Song of Solomon 5:10 | > Song of Solomon 5:12 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:11 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This […]

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. < Song of Solomon 5:11 | > Song of Solomon 5:13 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:12 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and […]

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. < Song of Solomon 5:12 | > Song of Solomon 5:14 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:13 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and […]

His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. < Song of Solomon 5:13 | > Song of Solomon 5:15 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:14 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and […]

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. < Song of Solomon 5:14 | > Song of Solomon 5:16 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:15 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, […]

His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. < Song of Solomon 5:15 | > Song of Solomon 6:1 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:16 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant […]

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. < Song of Solomon 5:1 | > Song of Solomon 5:3 Reflection […]

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? < Song of Solomon 5:2 | > Song of Solomon 5:4 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:3 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, […]

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. < Song of Solomon 5:3 | > Song of Solomon 5:5 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:4 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and […]

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. < Song of Solomon 5:4 | > Song of Solomon 5:6 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:5 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often […]

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. < Song of Solomon 5:5 | > Song of Solomon 5:7 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:6 sits […]

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. < Song of Solomon 5:6 | > Song of Solomon 5:8 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:7 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws […]

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. < Song of Solomon 5:7 | > Song of Solomon 5:9 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:8 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, […]

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? < Song of Solomon 5:8 | > Song of Solomon 5:10 Reflection Song of Solomon 5:9 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often […]

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. < Song of Solomon 5:16 | > Song of Solomon 6:2 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:1 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant […]

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? < Song of Solomon 6:9 | > Song of Solomon 6:11 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:10 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to […]

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. < Song of Solomon 6:10 | > Song of Solomon 6:12 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:11 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws […]

Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. < Song of Solomon 6:11 | > Song of Solomon 6:13 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:12 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be […]

Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. < Song of Solomon 6:12 | > Song of Solomon 7:1 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:13 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often […]

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. < Song of Solomon 6:1 | > Song of Solomon 6:3 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:2 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, […]

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. < Song of Solomon 6:2 | > Song of Solomon 6:4 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:3 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be […]

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. < Song of Solomon 6:3 | > Song of Solomon 6:5 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:4 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This […]

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. < Song of Solomon 6:4 | > Song of Solomon 6:6 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:5 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant […]

Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. < Song of Solomon 6:5 | > Song of Solomon 6:7 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:6 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often […]

As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. < Song of Solomon 6:6 | > Song of Solomon 6:8 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:7 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be brief, but […]

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. < Song of Solomon 6:7 | > Song of Solomon 6:9 Reflection Song of Solomon 6:8 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be brief, but its […]

My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. < Song of Solomon 6:8 | > Song of Solomon 6:10 Reflection Song […]

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. < Song of Solomon 6:13 | > Song of Solomon 7:2 Reflection Song of Solomon 7:1 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often […]

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. < Song of Solomon 7:9 | > Song of Solomon 7:11 Reflection Song of Solomon 7:10 sits within Song of Solomon, biblical poetry of love, where Scripture often draws attention to covenant love, delight, longing, and faithfulness. This verse may be brief, but its words […]