Old Testament
Song of Songs
The Bible's love poem — desire, delight, and love stronger than death.
Poetry / Love song · 8 chapters · About 15 minutes
Traditionally Solomon
Overview
The Song is an exchange between two lovers, full of gardens, vineyards, and longing. It is in the Bible unembarrassed — human love and desire, celebrated as good.
Read one way, it dignifies marriage and bodily love. Read the way the church has for centuries, it also whispers of a greater Lover whose banner over His people is love.
Its climax is one of the strongest claims in Scripture: love is as strong as death; many waters cannot quench it.
What it keeps returning to
Delight
The lovers study each other with admiration. Love notices.
The winter is past
Chapter 2's invitation — 'Arise, my love, and come away' — is springtime theology.
Unquenchable
Love outlasts flood and rivals death itself.
Start here
Song of Songs 2:8–13
'The winter is past… arise, my love.'
Song of Songs 4:7
'You are altogether beautiful.'
Song of Songs 8:6–7
Love strong as death, unquenched by many waters.
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.”