Scripture Text: Song of Solomon 8:14 (22a, page 188) Verses 14 Hurry, my beloved and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. Below is a selection from another version verse 14 Flee my lover, and be thou like a gazelle, or like a young one of the harts, on the mountains of spices. FRU … [Read more...]
Good friends are hard to find
Chapter Six verses 1-3 Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your lover turn, that we many look for him with you? My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies. I didn't find much … [Read more...]
Most beautiful of women – with attitude
Scripture Text: Song of Solomon 5:8-16 (22a, page 185) Verses 8-16 I want you to promise me, O young women of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you will tell him that I am faint from love. How is your beloved better than another beloved, O fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you so … [Read more...]
Friends, don’t you just love them
chapter Five verses 8-16 O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you-- if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love. How is your beloved better the others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so? He used the term most beautiful of women in front of them in chapter … [Read more...]
Perceptions of your actions
Chapter Five verses 5-7 I arose to open for my lover and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock. I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer. The watchmen found me as … [Read more...]
