Song of Solomon 8

Which worship songs are based on Song of Solomon 8?

  1. Awaken Love — Lacey Sturm (2021) Song of Solomon 8:4

    The song adopts the book’s repeated language about awakening love and combines it with its distinctive imagery of wine, fragrance, the beloved’s name, being drawn away, and searching for the beloved. It turns the biblical warning against awakening love prematurely into an invitation now that covenantal union is desired.

  2. Up To Something (Live) — UPPERROOM & Rudy Villarreal & Skylar Dayne & ONE HOUSE (2024) Song of Solomon 8:5

    The spontaneous section closely adopts the image of emerging from the wilderness while leaning upon one's beloved.

  3. One Thing (Prelude) — Rachel Morley (2025) Song of Solomon 8:5

    The image of emerging from the wilderness while leaning upon the beloved closely reproduces the distinctive scene in Song of Songs 8:5, here applied devotionally to Jesus.

  4. Stronger Than Death — Zahna (2023) Song of Solomon 8:6

    The song closely adapts the passage's comparison of love with death and the grave, reinforced later by imagery of love as a consuming fire.

  5. Dream (Live) — UPPERROOM & Joel Figueroa & Abbie Gamboa (2025) Song of Solomon 8:6

    The lyrics reference the idea of love being as strong as death, which echoes the sentiment found in the Song of Solomon, where love is described as a powerful and unyielding force.

  6. deep in love — kalley (2025) Song of Solomon 8:6

    The description of love as exceeding death closely recalls the comparison between the power of love and the power of death in Song of Songs, here applied to Jesus’ death-defeating love.

Song of Solomon 8 (King James Version)

1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.