Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5

2.10-13My beloved speaks and says to me:

“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,and come away,

for behold, the winter is past;the rain is over and gone.

2.10-13The flowers appear on the earth,

the time of singing has come,and the voice of the turtledove

is heard in our land.

2.10-13The fig tree ripens its figs,

and the vines are in blossom;they give forth fragrance.

Arise, my love, my beautiful one,and come away.

Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5

2.14O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,

in the crannies of the cliff,let me see your face,

let me hear your voice,for your voice is sweet,

and your face is lovely.

Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5

2.15Catch the foxes for us,

the little foxesthat spoil the vineyards,

for our vineyards are in blossom.

Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5

3.1-4On my bed by night

I sought him whom my soul loves;I sought him, but found him not.

I will rise now and go about the city,in the streets and in the squares;

3.1-4I will seek him whom my soul loves.

I sought him, but found him not.The watchmen found me

as they went about in the city.“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

3.1-4Scarcely had I passed them

when I found him whom my soul loves.

3.1-4I held him, and would not let him go

until I had brought him into my mother’s house,

and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5

“Love is not a passing fling but rather a demanding and exhausting relationship.”

- Tremper Longman III

Jennifer said she never really felt that her boyfriend was committed to her. “I felt like I was on this multiyear, never-ending audition to be his wife,” she said. “We had all this furniture. We had our dogs and all the same friends. It just made it really, really difficult to break up. Then it was like we got married because we were living together once we got into our 30s.”

Jennifer said she never really felt that her boyfriend was committed to her. “I felt like I was on this multiyear, never-ending audition to be his wife,” she said...

- Meg JayPublished: April 14, 2012

The New York Times

3.5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

by the gazelles or the does of the field,

that you not stir up or awaken loveuntil it pleases.

Song of Relationship2.10 – 3.5