There is a lot of cultural detail that I didn’t understand so I sought some help. Verses 6-11 tell of the bridal procession, but what is going on in 1-5? About verses 1-5 I read:
“Our next poetic unit seems clearly to be a dream sequence. The lover is the maiden's obsession night and day (v.1). So in a dream she seeks him. She goes about the city in the night querying those whom she meets about her beloved (vv.2-3). She finds him and will not let him go until she has brought him into her mother's home, into the very room where she was conceived (v.4). She is not looking for an illicit consummation of their love. Consummation she wants, but even in her dream she wants that consummation to be right. Where in human literature does one find a text so erotic and yet so moral as this?” (Expositor's Bible Commentary)
Marriage not illicit sex is in view throughout.
The commentator’s last line grabbed me. Where in human literature does one find a text so erotic and yet so moral as this?
TV, film, books, magazines are filled with sex, but these days rarely is sex within God’s definition of a man and woman in marriage. In our world, sex is a passionate act with whomever. It may not be a one-night stand, but it is commonplace to move in prior to marriage. And if that relationship doesn’t work out well then it ends and you move in with the next ‘love.’
How refreshing to read the passion of love and the desire for intimacy, but to read it aligning with God’s Will and Word!
Lord, my world is sick. We are sex crazed with little regard for Your Will, Word and Way. And is seeps regularly into your Church, Your people, Your body. Help us, Your church and the members thereof, to regain Your sexual moorings. O, God, help us; our world has left Your moorings and it is dragging us away too. Forgive us and help us stand for righteousness with our becoming prideful and arrogant in our witness to the world. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.
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