Solomon, the Lover, Speaks

“If you yourself do not know,
(A)Most beautiful among women,
Go out on the trail of the flock,
And pasture your young goats
By the tents of the shepherds.

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The Groom

15 [a](A)How beautiful you are, my darling,
[b]How beautiful you are!
Your (B)eyes are like doves.”

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 1:15 Lit Behold
  2. Song of Solomon 1:15 Lit Behold

10 “My beloved responded and said to me,
(A)Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along.

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13 The (A)fig tree has ripened its fruit,
And the (B)vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.
Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,
And come along!’”

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Solomon’s Love Expressed

[a]How beautiful (A)you are, my darling,
[b]How beautiful you are!
Your (B)eyes are like doves (C)behind your veil;
Your (D)hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Mount (E)Gilead.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:1 Lit Behold
  2. Song of Solomon 4:1 Lit Behold

(A)You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
And there is no blemish on you.

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10 (A)How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much [a](B)sweeter is your love than wine,
And the (C)fragrance of your oils
Than that of all kinds of balsam oils!

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  1. Song of Solomon 4:10 Lit better

The Chorus

[a]What kind of beloved is your beloved,
O (A)most beautiful among women?
[b]What kind of beloved is your beloved,
That you make us swear in this way?”

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:9 Or What is your beloved more than another beloved
  2. Song of Solomon 5:9 Or What is your beloved more than another beloved

Mutual Delight in Each Other

The Chorus

(A)Where has your beloved gone,
O (B)most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”

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The Groom

(A)You are as beautiful as (B)Tirzah, my darling,
As (C)lovely as (D)Jerusalem,
As (E)awesome as an army with banners.

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10 ‘Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full (A)moon,
As pure (B)as the sun,
As (C)awesome as an army with banners?’

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Admiration by the Groom

[a]How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
[b](A)Prince’s daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:1 Ch 7:2 in Heb
  2. Song of Solomon 7:1 Or Nobleman’s

How (A)beautiful and how delightful you are,
[a]My love, with all your delights!

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  1. Song of Solomon 7:6 Or With love among your charms

The Lord appeared to [a]him [b]long ago, saying,
“I have (A)loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you out with (B)kindness.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:3 Lit me
  2. Jeremiah 31:3 Or from far away

16 “For God so (A)loved the world, that He (B)gave His (C)only Son, so that everyone who (D)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.

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13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will (B)lay down his life for his friends.

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and hope (A)does not disappoint, because the love of God has been (B)poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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But God (A)demonstrates (B)His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, (C)Christ died for us.

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35 Who will separate us from (A)the love of [a]Christ? Will (B)tribulation, or trouble, or (C)persecution, or (D)famine, or (E)nakedness, or (F)danger, or sword? 36 Just as it is written:

(G)For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly (H)conquer through (I)Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither (J)death, nor life, nor (K)angels, nor principalities, nor (L)things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from (M)the love of God that is (N)in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  1. Romans 8:35 Two early mss God

Children of God Love One Another

See [a](A)how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called (B)children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because (C)it did not know Him.

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  1. 1 John 3:1 Lit what kind of love

16 We know love by this, that (A)He laid down His life for us; and (B)we ought to lay down our lives for the (C)brothers and sisters.

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The one who does not love does not know God, because (A)God is love. By this the love of God was revealed [a](B)in us, that (C)God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him. 10 In this is love, (D)not that we loved God, but that (E)He loved us and sent His Son to be (F)the [b]propitiation for our sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:9 Or among us; or in our case
  2. 1 John 4:10 I.e., means of reconciliation with God by atoning for sins; or sin-offering

16 (A)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has [a](B)for us. (C)God is love, and the one who (D)remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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  1. 1 John 4:16 Lit in

18 There is no fear in love, but (A)perfect love drives out fear, because fear [a]involves punishment, and the one who fears is not (B)perfected in love.

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  1. 1 John 4:18 Lit has

Since you are (A)precious in My sight,
Since you are (B)honored and I (C)love you,
I will give other people in your place and other nations in exchange for your life.

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