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Song of Songs
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. (Song of Songs 6:3)

AUTHOR: Unknown
TIMELINE: Most likely (sometime) around 960 B.C.
OUTLINE:
1. Love’s Strong Desire (1:2 - 2:7)
2. Love Lost and Found (2:8 - 3:5)
3. Celebration and Consummation (3:6 – 5:1)
4. Love’s Anxiety and Consummation (5:2 – 8:4)
5. Love’s Affirmation and Consummation (8: 5-14)

KEY THEMES:
1. God's covenant, which commands sexual purity, provides just the right framework (marriage) within which his people may
properly enjoy the gift of sexual intimacy (cf. Gen. 2:23–24).
2. Marriage is a gift of God, and is to be founded on loyalty and commitment (see Gen. 2:24, “hold fast”), which allows delight to
flourish.
POEM Scripture Description
Poem 1 1:2-4
Poem 2 1:5-6
Poem 3 1:7-8
Poem 4 1:9-11
Poem 5 1:12-14
Poem 6 1:15-17
Poem 7 2:1-7
Poem 8 2:8-17
Poem 9 3:1-5
Poem 10 3:6-11
Poem 11 4:1-7
Poem 12 4:8-9
Poem 13 4:10 - 5:1
Poem 14 5:2 - 6:3
Poem 15 6:4-10
Poem 16 6:11-12
Poem 17 6:13 - 7:10
Poem 18 7:11-13
Poem 19 8:1-4
Poem 20 8:5-7
Poem 21 8:8-10
Poem 22 8:11-12
Poem 23 8:13-14

KEY VERSE: Song of Songs 8:5-7, Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There
your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor. 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. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods
drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

REDEMPTION VERSE: Romans 8:19-22 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was
subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its
bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of
childbirth right up to the present time.