song of songs, love of loves

The Word for today:
Song of Songs 6:4-8:4

Mark this: Song of Songs 8:3-4
His left hand is under my head,
And his right hand embraces me.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.


In the discussion of the shepherd, the king, and the bride in Song of Songs, we forget there are some others in the story. They are the "daughters of Jerusalem" (see 2:7; 3:5; 5:8). The daughters of Jerusalem appear exactly once more in the Bible--on the way to the cross:
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.  (Luke 23:28)

Three times in Song of Songs, the daughters of Jerusalem are told they would have to be patient, to wait until the time was right for love…
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases. (Song of Songs 2:7)


1000 years after Solomon, when the time was right for love, the Bridegroom/Shepherd/King turns to the daughters of Jerusalem on His way to save the Bride:
 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? (Luke 23:28-31)


The daughters of Jerusalem, the audience in Song of Songs, were witness to the greatest love the world has ever known, but not in Solomon's time. They had to wait until the New Testament, where "Greater love hath no man, than that He should lay down His life for (His bride)."

That, ultimately, is what Song of Songs is about.
It stands to reason.  All the best songs are love songs, so the "Song of Songs" would have to be about the love of loves.