Song of Songs

The Song of Songs gives us a powerful view of God’s design for human sexuality. It helps guide couples to a mutually fulfilling sexual relationship.

CHAPTERS: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08

RESOURCES: SummaryOutline, Memorize, Terminology, Sexuality, Black and Lovely


 

Like this Book of the Bible, our comments are sexually explicit.

 


SUMMARY

Title

This book is known by many titles:

  • The Song of Solomon
  • Song of Songs
  • Canticles
  • The Song

The title “Song of Songs” implies one song out of many songs. The book is one unified song.

Among Solomon’s many songs, this is the best.

It sets before its readers a paradigm for a mutually fulfilling sexual relationship.

Author

The first verse attributes the authorship of this book to Solomon:

Song of Songs 1:1. The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

Date

Given that the book was written by Solomon, and that the book refers to Solomon as king:

The book was probably written during the kingship of Solomon, some time between 971 and 931 BC.

Purpose

Many people “spiritualize” this Book of the Bible. They say it’s a parable about God’s love for humanity.

Or they say it’s a “parable” about Christ’s love for his Church.

Or they say is about Israel’s love for the Sabbath.

But if you read the Song of Songs simply, taking it at face value, as it presents itself, it is a story of deep romance and erotic love.

It would seem strange if the Bible was not able to speak of two of God’s greatest gifts to the human race: romance and human sexuality.

The Song of Songs is somewhat circumspect with regard to how it describes sexuality. It often uses allusions. Their meaning can be discerned from the context. We find 24 special terms for sexuality. Read more »

In the Song of Songs, sexual encounters lead to cunnilingus and fellatio. Sexual fantasy and masturbation are honored, as are erotic dreams and breasts. Vaginal intercourse is not even mentioned. Read more »

 


OUTLINE

ROMANCE

Song of Songs 1:1. Introduction

Song of Songs 1:2-7. The woman expresses her sexual desire

Song of Songs 1:8-17. Solomon responds

ORAL SEX 1

Song of Songs 2:1-7. The woman gives Solomon fellatio

Song of Songs 2:8-16. Solomon gives the woman cunnilingus

SEXUAL FANTASY

Song of Songs 3:1-5. The woman has an erotic dream

Song of Songs 3:6-11. The woman has a sexual fantasy

ORAL SEX 2

Song of Songs 4:1-16. The privilege of cunnilingus

Song of Songs 5:1. Solomon celebrates cunnilingus

EROTIC DREAM

Song of Songs 5:2-4. The woman has an erotic dream

MASTURBATION

Song of Songs 5:5-9. The woman masturbates

Song of Songs 5:10-16. The woman describes Solomon’s physical appearance

ORAL SEX 3

Song of Songs 6:1-3. Solomon gives the woman cunnilingus

Song of Songs 6:4-10. Solomon beholds her beauty

Song of Songs 6:11-13. The woman gives Solomon fellatio

INTERLUDE

Song of Songs 7:1-8. Solomon beholds her beauty

Song of Songs 7:9-13. The woman initiates a sexual encounter

ORAL SEX 4

Song of Songs 8:1-13. The woman invites Solomon to give her cunnilingus

Song of Songs 8:14. The woman invites Solomon to give her cunnilingus again

 


MEMORIZE

Song of Songs 8:6. Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. (NAB translation)

Song of Songs 8:7. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away. Were one to offer all he owns to purchase love, he would be roundly mocked. (NAB translation)

Great verses to memorize from the entire Bible

 


TERMINOLOGY

The Song of Songs is somewhat circumspect with regard to how it describes sexuality. It often uses allusions. Their meaning can be discerned from the context.

Index:

  1. foxes
  2. frankincense
  3. fruit (breasts)
  4. fruit (female)
  5. fruit (male)
  6. garden
  7. hills
  8. honey (honeycomb)
  9. juice
  10. latch (opening)
  11. lilies
  12. lips
  13. mandrakes
  14. milk
  15. mountains
  16. myrrh
  17. nut garden
  18. perfume
  19. pomegranates
  20. spices
  21. tongue
  22. vine, vineyard
  23. water
  24. wine

foxes

This word suggests distractions during sexual encounters.

Song of Songs 2:15. Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

frankincense

This word suggests the fragrance a woman’s body makes when she is sexually aroused:

Song of Songs 4:6. Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Synonymns:

fruit (breasts)

This word suggests a woman’s breasts:

Song of Songs 7:7. This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

Song of Songs 7:8. I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples,

fruit (female)

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 4:16. Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Song of Songs 7:13. The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Song of Songs 8:12. My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Synonyms:

fruit (male)

This word suggests a man’s semen:

Song of Songs 2:3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

garden

This word suggests a woman’s labia:

Song of Songs 4:12. A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Song of Songs 4:16. Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Song of Songs 6:2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Synonyms:

hills

This word suggests a woman’s mons pubis:

Song of Songs 2:8. The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Song of Songs 4:6. Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

honey (honeycomb)

This word suggests woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 4:11. Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Synonyms:

juice

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 8:2. I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Synonyms:

latch (opening)

This word suggests a woman’s labia:

Song of Songs 5:4. My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

Synonyms:

lilies

This word suggests a woman’s labia:

Song of Songs 2:16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:5. Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

Song of Songs 6:2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 6:3. I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,

Synonyms:

lips

This word suggests a woman’s labia:

Song of Songs 4:11. Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Synonyms:

mandrakes

This word suggests a woman’s labia:

Song of Songs 7:13. The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Synonyms:

milk

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 4:11. Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Synonyms:

mountains

This word suggests a woman’s breasts:

Song of Songs 2:8. The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

myrrh

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Song of Songs 5:5. I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

Song of Songs 5:13. His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Synonyms:

nut garden

This phrase suggests a man’s testicles:

Song of Songs 6:11. I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

perfume

This word suggests the fragrance a woman’s body makes when she is sexually aroused:

Song of Songs 1:12. While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

Song of Songs 4:10. How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Synonymns:

pomegranates

Song of Songs 6:11. I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

Song of Songs 7:12. Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

Song of Songs 8:2. I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

spices

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 4:16. Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Song of Songs 5:13. His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Song of Songs 6:2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 8:14. Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Synonyms:

tongue

This word suggests a woman’s clitoris:

Song of Songs 4:11. Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

vine, vineyard

This word suggests sexual hunger:

Song of Songs 1:6. Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Song of Songs 2:15. Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

Song of Songs 6:11. I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

Song of Songs 7:12. Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

Song of Songs 8:12. My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

water

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 4:15. a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

Synonyms:

wine

This word suggests a woman’s sexual secretions:

Song of Songs 5:1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Song of Songs 8:2. I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Synonyms:

 


SEXUALITY

In the Song of Songs, sexual encounters lead to cunnilingus and fellatio.

Sexual fantasy and masturbation are honored, as are erotic dreams and breasts.

Vaginal intercourse is not even mentioned.

Index:

  1. cunnilingus
  2. fellatio
  3. sexual fantasy
  4. masturbation
  5. erotic dream
  6. breasts

CUNNILINGUS

In the Song of Songs, we find 14 verses that allude to cunnilingus:

Song of Songs 2:16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:6. Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Songs 4:11. Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 4:13. Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices—henna with nard, (NLT translation)

Song of Songs 4:15. a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

Song of Songs 4:16. Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Song of Songs 5:1a. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Song of Songs 5:1b. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Song of Songs 5:13. His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Song of Songs 6:2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 6:3. I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,

Song of Songs 8:2. I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Song of Songs 8:12. My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Song of Songs 8:14. Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

FELLATIO

In the Song of Songs, we find two verses that allude to fellatio:

Song of Songs 2:3. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song of Songs 6:11. I came down to the nut garden to look at the fresh growth of the valley, To see if the vines were in bloom, if the pomegranates had blossomed. (NAB translation)

SEXUAL FANTASY

In the Song of Songs, the woman has a sexual fantasy. The text does not condemn her for it.

Song of Songs 3:1. By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Song of Songs 3:6. Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

MASTURBATION

In the Song of Songs, the woman masturbates. The text does not condemn her for it.

Song of Songs 5:5. I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock

EROTIC DREAM

In the Song of Songs, the woman has an erotic dream. The text does not condemn her for it.

Song of Songs 5:2. I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Song of Songs 5:3. I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

Song of Songs 5:4. My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

BREASTS

In the Song of Songs, the woman’s breasts are a prized part of their sexual relationship.

Song of Songs 1:13. My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

Song of Songs 2:8. The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Song of Songs 4:5. Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

Song of Songs 7:3. Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

Song of Songs 7:7. This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

Song of Songs 7:8. I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples,

Song of Songs 8:1. Oh, I wish you were my brother, who nursed at my mother’s breasts. Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching, and no one would criticize me. (NLT translation)

Song of Songs 8:8. We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

Song of Songs 8:10. I was a virgin, like a wall; now my breasts are like towers. When my lover looks at me, he is delighted with what he sees. (NLT translation)

 


SONG OF SONGS

CHAPTERS: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08

RESOURCES: SummaryOutline, Memorize, Terminology, Sexuality, Black and Lovely

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