Book by Book · Old Testament
A book of love poetry, set right in the middle of the Bible.
Song of Songs is unlike anything around it. It is a collection of love poems, mostly the back-and-forth of two lovers longing for, praising, and delighting in each other. There is no mention of law or kings or war. Readers across the centuries have heard it on more than one level, as a celebration of human love and as a picture of the love between God and his people, and the book is generous enough to hold both.
What stays with most readers is how personal it is. The language is tender and unguarded, full of gardens and vineyards and the simple ache of wanting to be near someone. It treats love as something worth taking seriously, and worth saying out loud.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
— Song of Songs 8:7 (ESV)
We build a thing that talks, so we think often about what a machine should and should not be asked to carry. A book like this is a good reminder that some things are personal in a way no assistant belongs in. Ours can answer when a service starts or what a church believes, but the deepest matters of a heart are for people, not for software, and we would rather it knew the difference.
A strange, warm book, and a fitting place to remember what machines are not for.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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