Song of Solomon 6: 4-10 The Fifth Poem

You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling. You are as lovely as Jerusalem and as awesome as an army with banners. Turn your eyes away from me because they have confused me. Your hair is like a flock of goats that have descended from Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which have come up from their washing, all of which bear twins and not one among them has lost her young. Your temples are like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and maidens without number. But my dove, my perfect one is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the pure child of the one who bore her, and she is called blessed. The queens and the concubines also, and they prais her saying, "Who is this that grows like the dawn, as beautiful as the full moon and as pure as the sun."

The contents of the song show a change of focus; now there is no longer a quest but rather a celebration. What was earlier only a promise has now become a reality. As the father will later comment, love has the ability to renew those who live it: This is the love that renews us, makes us into a new people, heirs to the New Covenant. We are singers of a new song. This love, my beloved, makes new the just men of old, the patriarchs and the prophets, and the holy apostles; now it renews all people and makes one new people under God.

Daily Prayer: Father, the Bible teaches us that you are love. You extend your love into the people of God from all places and all houses because we are called to love you since you first loved us and told to love our neighbor as ourself against which there in no laws. This is your good will. Amen.