Song of Songs 8:10
She I was a wall,
and my breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds peace.
Tag: From Independence to Peaceful Relationship
In the above passage we break through into a section of this love story where the bride (Solomon’s bride) is apparently in a conversation with her brothers. The brothers believe she needs to be protected and they are up for the challenge. Note the proceeding verses:
Song of Songs 8:8-9
We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for?
If she is a wall,
we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
The brothers see the bride differently than she sees herself. They see her as too young (no breast) and vulnerable (needing a wall built up around her). She believes her breast are fully developed, thank you, and she believes she has made them like towers (showing her purity and commitment to chastity. Her brothers simply want to protect her. She is claiming her independence from their protection and, rather, asserting that she can fend for herself. She is sharing with them that this independence has broken through to a relationship with Solomon. Such a relationship that there is no “conflict” about her breast or intimacy with him. Instead she asserts this relationship has culminated in “peace.” She is using that word to show that the brothers wanted to protect her purity and create a “battlement of silver” for her. She reply’s, “Back off, bro, I got this. I am strong enough to keep myself pure. But, you need to know that there is no battle raging ... we have committed ourselves to each other and there is peace ... extreme peace. That is what pure love should look like and feel like ... extreme peace. When she stays pure and he honors those boundaries, there is no battlement. There is no need for protection. When respect and love are present we have peace. Peace is a relationship must be built before there is intimacy in a relationship. Peace is NOT the absence of war. Peace is the presence of love and commitment to each other’s welfare and pleasure. This is what the bride is boasting about.
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