Song of Solomon 8:8-14

Final Advice

8

Others

8 We have a little sister, and she ¹has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with ²boards of cedar.

She

10 ³I was a wall, and my ⁴breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds^[a] peace.

11 Solomon had ⁵a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he ⁶let out the vineyard to ⁷keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit ⁸a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and ⁹the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

He

13 ¹⁰O you who dwell in the gardens, with ¹¹companions listening for your voice; ¹²let me hear it.

She

14 ¹³Make haste, my beloved, and be ¹⁴like a gazelle or a young stag on ¹⁵the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 8:8-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 8

This chapter begins with an ardent wish of the church for a free and intimate converse with Christ; declaring what she would do to him, and for him, should she have such an interview with him, So 8:1,2; what familiarity should be between them, So 8:3; charging the daughters of Jerusalem not to give him any disturbance, So 8:4. Upon which they inquire who she was that was in such a posture they saw her in, So 8:5; when the church, instead of giving them an answer, says some things concerning her beloved, on whom they saw her leaning; and makes some requests to him for more nearness to him, and manifestations of his love to her; urged from the strength her love and affections to him, which was invincible, So 8:6,7. Next follows a speech of the church about her little sister; expressing a concern for her, and what she would do to her and with her, So 8:8,9; and the answer of the little sister, declaring what she, was, and what she enjoyed, So 8:10; then the words of the church again, concerning her husband's vineyard; the place, keepers, and profit of it, So 8:11,12. And the chapter, and with it the Song, is concluded with a request of Christ to the church, that he might hear her voice, So 8:13; and with a petition of hers to him, that he would come quickly to her, So 8:14.

Cross References

• 1. 8:8 [Ezek. 16:7]
• 2. 8:9 [1 Kgs. 6:15]
• 3. 8:10 [ch. 4:12, 13]
• 4. 8:10 [ch. 4:5; 7:3]
• 5. 8:11 Eccles. 2:4
• 6. 8:11 [Matt. 21:33]
• 7. 8:11 ch. 1:6
• 8. 8:11 [Isa. 7:23]
• 9. 8:12 See Prov. 27:18
• 10. 8:13 [ch. 5:1]
• 11. 8:13 ch. 1:7
• 12. 8:13 ch. 2:14
• 13. 8:14 [Rev. 22:17, 20]
• 14. 8:14 See ch. 2:9
• 15. 8:14 [ch. 4:6]

Footnotes

• [a] 8:10 Or 'brings out'