Song of Solomon 8:1-4

Song of Solomon 7:7 Chap. Song of Solomon 8:4. The King and the Shepherdess the last Assault

We may suppose that after her attendants have completed the Shulammite's adornment, and have finished their fulsome praises of her beauty, she receives a new visit from the king. In Song of Solomon 7:7-9 he gives utterance to his admiration in more sensuous terms than ever, and in Song of Solomon 7:9 bshe turns his talk aside, and dwells upon her lover. In Song of Solomon 7:10 she gives her final answer in the exclamation that she belongs to him alone. The king then withdraws, and in Song of Solomon 7:11 she lets her heart go out to her absent lover, and calls upon him to go back with her into their obscure but happy country life. In Song of Solomon 8:1-3 she expresses a wish that he were her brother, so that she might love him without reproach, and concludes in Song of Solomon 7:4 with a modification of the adjuration in Song of Solomon 2:7 and Song of Solomon 3:5.