Song of Songs 8:6 Hang my locket around your neck, wear my ring on your finger. Love is invincible facing danger and death. Passion laughs at the terrors of hell. The fire of love stops at nothing— it sweeps everything Set me as a seal upon thine heart, A (2024)

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Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Wedding Reading

The overall meaning of this reading is that love is so strong it can sometimes be destructive, so when you love another it has to be with full commitment and intent. Love can't be contained and, because of its rarity, love's value must be appreciated when you do find it.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7 Prays for Strength in Our Marriages

And at the same time, to work hard to cultivate love for people all around us, knowing these are the greatest commandments, right, to love God with everything we have and to love others as ourselves.

6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.

Song of Songs 8:6 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.

Song of Solomon reminds us that both marriage and the physical union that follows originate in God; we should therefore consider each of them as evidence of His grace working itself out in the world.

The key instructional unit in the song is located at Song of Solomon 8:6–10. By way of summary, the song teaches that the covenant of marriage should involve both commitment (Song 8:6a) and intimacy (Song 8:6b).

8 Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number! 9 But I love only one, and she is as lovely as a dove. She is her mother's only daughter, her mother's favorite child. All women look at her and praise her; queens and concubines sing her praises.

Commentary on Song of Solomon 6:4-10

He shows the tenderness of a Redeemer, the delight he takes in his redeemed people, and the workings of his own grace in them. True believers alone can possess the beauty of holiness. And when their real character is known, it will be commended.

The Song emphasises greatly the importance of love in a married couple's relationship. It is wrong when husbands and wives continuously force each other to do things. They should respect each other because they love each other. The Song shows how beautiful it is for a husband and wife to be loyal to each other.

Song of Solomon 8:6 KJV

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.

What is the song of Solomon 8 about? ›

Solomon emphasizes, continuing in the same train of thought, that love must be permanent and with complete trust for one another. Without permanency and trust, a marriage cannot stand. Thus, he wants her to know that his love toward her is as good as a seal over her heart and on her arm.

First, the couple experiences an argument (Song of Solomon 5:2—6:3). Second, the lovers work through their conflict and promptly restore their desires for one another (Song of Solomon 6:4—8:4). The final verses speak of additional areas where the married couple can grow together (Song of Solomon 8:5–14).

The woman asks to be set as a seal on the heart and arm of her husband, referring to his feelings and attitudes as well as his actions (Song 8:6). Essentially, she wants to be bound not to just a part of him but to all that he is. This is because of the strength of her love and her jealousy for him.

When Solomon says to guard your heart, he implies that you are living in a combat zone—one in which there are casualties. Many of us are oblivious to the reality of this war. We have an enemy who is bent on our destruction. He not only opposes God, but he opposes everything that is aligned with Him—including us.

There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And virgins without number. My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, The only one of her mother, The favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised her.

And by saying “For love is strong as death”, it is a proclamation of love that says, "I am yours until the day I die, till death do us part, for better or for worse." In the Book of Tobit, this becomes a physical reality because Tobias and Sarah are in serious danger.

During a Sunday afternoon conversation with Milkman at Mary's bar, Guitar tells Milkman that he took Hagar home after he found her at his place following her aborted attempt on Milkman's life. Milkman is uncomfortable talking about Hagar, especially after Guitar asks him what he did to hurt her so badly.