1 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at BibleStudyHeadquarters.com. You're listening 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,940 Speaker 1: to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm John Stonge, 4 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,889 Speaker 1: and today we're in Song of Solomon, Chapter 4. And 5 00:00:21,910 --> 00:00:26,990 Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the New American Standard Bible. How 6 00:00:27,090 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: beautiful you are, my darling, how beautiful you are. Your 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,540 Speaker 1: eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is 8 00:00:35,620 --> 00:00:39,739 Speaker 1: like a flock of goats that have descended from Mount Gilead. 9 00:00:40,650 --> 00:00:43,690 Speaker 1: Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes 10 00:00:44,090 --> 00:00:47,030 Speaker 1: which have come up from their washing, all of which 11 00:00:47,330 --> 00:00:51,070 Speaker 1: bear twins, and not one among them has lost her young. 12 00:00:52,450 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth 13 00:00:55,940 --> 00:00:59,610 Speaker 1: is lovely. Your temples are like a slice of a 14 00:00:59,650 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: pomegranate behind your veil. Your neck is like the Tower 15 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,500 Speaker 1: of David, built with rows of stones, on which are 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,620 Speaker 1: hung a thousand shields, all the round shields of the 17 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:17,839 Speaker 1: mighty men. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins 18 00:01:18,020 --> 00:01:21,940 Speaker 1: of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies, until the 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,870 Speaker 1: cool of the day, when the shadows flee away. I 20 00:01:25,910 --> 00:01:28,770 Speaker 1: will go my way to the mountain of Myrrh and 21 00:01:28,850 --> 00:01:34,730 Speaker 1: to the hill of frankincense. You are altogether beautiful, my darling, 22 00:01:35,110 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: and there is no blemish in you. Come with me 23 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: from Lebanon, my bride. May you come with me from Lebanon. 24 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: Journey down from the summit of Ammanah, from the summit 25 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:52,070 Speaker 1: of Sinir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from 26 00:01:52,110 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: the mountains of leopards, You have made my heart beat faster, 27 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: my sister, my bride. You have made my heart beat 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,100 Speaker 1: faster with a single glance of your eyes, with a 29 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: single strand of your necklace. How beautiful is your love, 30 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:12,300 Speaker 1: my sister, my bride. How much better is your love 31 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,310 Speaker 1: than wine and the fragrance of your oils than all 32 00:02:16,370 --> 00:02:21,710 Speaker 1: kinds of spices. Your lips, my bride, drip honey. Honey 33 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:25,210 Speaker 1: and milk are under your tongue. and the fragrance of 34 00:02:25,270 --> 00:02:29,649 Speaker 1: your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. A garden 35 00:02:29,710 --> 00:02:33,750 Speaker 1: locked is my sister, my bride, a rock garden locked, 36 00:02:34,090 --> 00:02:39,419 Speaker 1: a spring sealed up. Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, 37 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,779 Speaker 1: with choice fruits, henna, with nard plants, nard and saffron, 38 00:02:45,220 --> 00:02:50,860 Speaker 1: calamus and cinnamon. With all the trees of frankincense, myrrh 39 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:56,179 Speaker 1: and aloes, along with all the finest spices. You are 40 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: a garden spring, a well of fresh water, and streams 41 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,419 Speaker 1: flowing from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind, and come, wind 42 00:03:06,460 --> 00:03:11,060 Speaker 1: of the south. Make my garden breathe out fragrance. Let 43 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,730 Speaker 1: its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into 44 00:03:15,790 --> 00:03:23,380 Speaker 1: his garden and eat its choice fruits. Let's pray. Lord, 45 00:03:23,419 --> 00:03:25,180 Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you 46 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: for the privilege to read it, to meditate on it, 47 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,730 Speaker 1: to study it, to commit it to memory, and to 48 00:03:30,889 --> 00:03:34,750 Speaker 1: understand it through faith in your Son, Jesus Christ. And Lord, 49 00:03:34,770 --> 00:03:36,730 Speaker 1: when we look at a portion of Scripture like this, 50 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:40,220 Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful description of the love that exists 51 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: between a husband and a wife. And Lord, if you 52 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: bless us with the privilege to marry somebody, We know, Lord, 53 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:49,290 Speaker 1: that your desire is that we would love our spouse, 54 00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:52,290 Speaker 1: that we would honor them, that we would display the 55 00:03:52,350 --> 00:03:55,450 Speaker 1: love of Christ within our marriages, and that your name 56 00:03:55,490 --> 00:03:59,430 Speaker 1: would be glorified in how our households are conducted. Lord, 57 00:03:59,490 --> 00:04:02,090 Speaker 1: we pray that the kind of love that's described in 58 00:04:02,130 --> 00:04:05,530 Speaker 1: this passage would be present in our households, and that 59 00:04:05,570 --> 00:04:09,130 Speaker 1: your name would be glorified in all areas of our marriages. 60 00:04:10,070 --> 00:04:12,290 Speaker 1: We love you, Lord. We commit this day to your care, 61 00:04:12,490 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: and we thank you for all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.