Sng Song of Solomon, chapter Song of Solomon, chapter 8
Woman:
How I wish you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! Then if I met you on the street I could kiss you and no one would tell me off. Then I could take you home to my mother's house, where she used to teach me.8:2. Or “To the room of the one who bore me,” paralleling 3:4. I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranate. Sng 3:4He supports my head with his left hand, and holds me close with his right. Sng 2:6Women of Jerusalem, swear to me that you won't disturb our love until the right time.Sng 3:5
Women of Jerusalem:
Who is this coming in from the wilderness holding her love close to her?
Woman:
I woke you up under the apple tree where your mother conceived you, and where she gave birth to you.8:5. What this means is unclear. 1Pe 5:10; Mat 8:25; Mat 12:49; Gal 4:19; Sng 3:6Stamp my name as a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm,8:6. As an indication of ownership. for love is strong as death, passion as unyielding as the grave—its arrows flash like fire, a blazing flame of the Lord. Jer 22:24; 2Ti 2:12Floods of water cannot extinguish love; rivers cannot submerge it. If a man offered everything he owned in order to buy love he would be completely rejected.Rom 8:35; Rom 8:39
Woman's brothers:
We have a younger sister whose breasts are still small. What shall we do for our sister when someone asks to marry her? If she is a wall, we will build a silver tower on it. But if she is a door, we will bar the way with cedar planks.8:9. Some take the image of the wall as representing virginity, and the door as someone who is promiscuous. In any case, the woman identifies herself as a wall in the following verse, indicating faithfulness in any case.
Woman:
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So when he looks at me he's happy!8:10. Literally, “Then in his eyes I am as one who brings peace.” The woman is contradicting her brothers and is saying she is mature.
Woman:8:11. Some believe the man is speaking the following verses.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon which he leased to tenant farmers. Each of them paid him one thousand silver coins for the fruit it produced. Ecc 2:4; Mat 21:33But I own my vineyard, it is mine alone. One thousand silver coins are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for those who look after it.Isa 5:1
Man:
My darling, sitting there in the gardens with companions listening to you—please talk to me!
Woman:
Come quickly, my love! Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.Sng 2:9; Sng 2:17