The Song of Songs  (a love story, to show how God's love for us and our love for God  are like that of two lovers)

Chapters 1, 2

The bride says:
Kiss me. Your love is better than wine.
How right it is to love you, you whom my heart loves.

The bridegroom says:
How beautiful you are, my love, how beautiful you are.

The bride:
He has taken me to his banquet hall
and his banner over me is love.

The groom:
Come then, my love, my lovely one, come.
Show me your face and let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet and your face is beautiful.

The bride:
My beloved is mine and I am his.

  

Dear God, please give me a lover's love for you

  

Chapters 3, 4

The bride:
On my bed at night,
I sought him whom my heart loves.

The groom:
How beautiful you are, my love.
You are wholly beautiful, my love,
and without blemish.

  

Lord, please help me understand how much you love me

  

Chapter 5

The bride:
I sleep, but my heart is awake.
I hear my beloved knocking.

I open my door, but he is gone.
I search for him, but cannot find him.		  

Lord, please help me search for you until I find you

  

Chapters 5, 6, 7

The bride:
His conversation is sweetness itself,
my beloved is totally  lovable.
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.

The groom:
You are beautiful, my love,
as beautiful as Jerusalem.

How beautiful are your feet and thighs.
The curve of your thighs is like the curve of a necklace.

Your navel is like an exquisite wine glass.
Your belly is like a heap of wheat.

Your two breasts are like two baby deer.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.

Your eyes are like beautiful water pools.
Your nose is like a majestic tower.

How beautiful you are, how charming,
my love, my delight.

  

Lord, please help me understand how much you love me

  

Chapter 8

Set me like a seal on your heart,
like a seal on your arm.

For love is strong as death.
Love is like a fire, a mighty flame.

No flood can quench love.
No torrents can drown it.

Money cannot buy love.

  

Lord, please fill my heart with your love