Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon has 8 chapters. Read Song of Solomon in the New Living Translation, chapter by chapter, free and without an account.
Song of Solomon, also called Song of Songs, is a collection of love poetry voiced through lovers and their companions. Rich images of gardens, animals, fragrance, and beauty express attraction, longing, delight, and separation. Repeated invitations and searches shape the poems, while the closing chapter celebrates love’s strength and its resistance to purchase.
In Christian Bibles, Song of Solomon is one of the books of Poetry and Wisdom of the Old Testament. In the Jewish Tanakh it belongs to the Ketuvim, the Writings. See it on the shelf.
Song of Solomon 1 opens with longing and mutual praise amid vineyards, shepherds, fragrance, jewelry, and a hoped-for dwelling.
Song of Solomon 2 celebrates love’s springtime invitation, mutual belonging, patient desire, and protection of tender vines.
Song of Solomon 3 moves from a nighttime search and joyful reunion to Solomon’s fragrant wedding procession and crown.
Song of Solomon 4 expresses loving admiration through mountain, garden, fragrance, fruit, and living-water imagery.
Song of Solomon 5 recounts a missed nighttime visit, a painful search, and the woman’s steadfast praise of her beloved and friend.
Song of Solomon 6 celebrates reunion, mutual belonging, the beloved’s unique beauty, and radiant garden imagery.
Song of Solomon 7 joins poetic admiration with mutual desire and the lovers’ shared journey into fruitful vineyards.
Song of Solomon 8 portrays love as a seal—strong, unquenchable, priceless—and closes with agency, vineyards, and longing.