Song of Solomon 8

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Desire for communion with Christ

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on. O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate. I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me. His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

The vehemence of this desire

Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth. Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

The church makes earnest prayer for others

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man? We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood. If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come. I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit. Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

And makes prayer for Christ's coming

You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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