Song of Solomon · Memory Palace

Theme

See the outline below for the structure of this book.

Outline

Adapted from the NIV Study Bible outline via Bible Study Tools. Verses: ESV.

I. Title (1:1)
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
II. The First Meeting (1:2)
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
III. The Second Meeting (2:8)
8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
IV. The Third Meeting (3:6)
6 What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
V. The Fourth Meeting (5:2)
2 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
VI. The Fifth Meeting (6:4)
4 You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
VII. The Literary Climax (8:5-7)
5 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.

6 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.

7 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.
VIII. The Conclusion (8:8-14)
8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

10 I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

13 O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it.

14 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.