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gift of each other

Song of Songs 5:2-9 (JDV)

Song of Songs 5:2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. A sound! My love was knocking! Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.
Song of Songs 5:3 I have taken off my clothing. How can I put it back on? I have washed my feet. How can I get them dirty?
Song of Songs 5:4 My love thrust his hand through the opening, and my feelings were stirred for him.
Song of Songs 5:5 I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
Song of Songs 5:6 I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank because he had left. I sought him but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.
Song of Songs 5:7 The guards who go about the city found me. They beat and wounded me; they took my cloak from me — the guardians of the walls.
Song of Songs 5:8 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you, if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick.
Song of Songs 5:9 What makes the one you love better than another, most beautiful of women? What makes him better than another, that you would give us this charge?

gift of each other

Why him, and not someone else? Only a lover’s heart can answer. But the bride knows. The LORD has given couples a gift of each other, and we are happy only when enjoying each other’s company. We find it hard to bear when we are separated, even for short times.

LORD, some of the couples you have given to each other have to face separation for times. Help us to encourage them as they face these times.