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Pentecost Season · Proper 17 · Year B

Song of Songs 2:8-13

Arise, My Love, and Come Away

August 29, 2027

The Beloved (The Bride), Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Beloved (The Bride), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1865–1866Tate Britain, London
Rossetti's bride at the centre surrounded by attendants of deliberately varied complexion, with a Song of Songs verse inscribed on the frame.The frame carries the text these readings use: arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.Dante Gabriel RossettiA founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and a poet as much as a painter, who worked mostly from a small circle of women he knew.Tate Britain, LondonThe national collection of British art from 1500, on Millbank, including the Turner Bequest of nearly thirty thousand works the artist left to the nation.Tate Britain, London
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
EpistleJas. 1:17-27Jas 1:17-27
Old TestamentSong 2:8-13Sg 2:8-13Alt. OTDeut. 4:1-2, 6-9Dt 4:1-2, 6-9
PsalterPs. 45:1-2, 6-9Ps 45:1-2, 6-9Alt. PsalmPs. 15Ps 15

Overview & Insights

"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." (Song of Solomon 2:10)

The beloved hears her lover coming over the hills like a gazelle and he calls her to rise and come with him, for winter is past, the flowers appear, and the time of singing has come.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Song of Solomon 2:8-13Working Preacher: Commentary on Sg 2:8-13 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on the lover's springtime invitation for the complementary track.

Enduring Word: Song of Solomon 2Enduring Word: Sg 2 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Song of Solomon CommentariesPrecept Austin: Sg Commentaries Precept Austin

Collected verse-by-verse resources and commentators for the Song of Songs.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Song of Solomon 2:8BibleHub: Commentaries on Sg 2:8 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the beloved's call to come away.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: Song of Songs OverviewBibleProject: Sg Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the poetry and themes of the Song of Songs.

Sefaria: Song of Songs 2 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Sg 2 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Song of Solomon 2 InterlinearBibleHub: Sg 2 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Song of Songs 2Catena: Sg 2 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on the Song of Songs 2.

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