Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=SongofSolomon+004   Song of Solomon 4 (ESV) Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty He 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=SongofSolomon+003   Song of Solomon 3 (ESV) The Bride’s Dream 1 On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. 2 I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=SongofSolomon+002   Song of Solomon 2 (ESV) She 1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. He 2 As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. She 3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=SongofSolomon+001   Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs) Traditional wedding celebrations in the Middle East cast the bride and groom in the roles of a king and his queen. The festivities include love songs and also special songs that praise the physical beauty of the bride or the handsomeness of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ecclesiastes+012   Ecclesiastes 12 (ESV) 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, … […]