The Passage- The Old Testament

Sweeter and I have chosen the verses that we want to be read during our wedding ceremony.

We decided to chose a verse from the Old Testament and the New Testament and we have asked two people very close to us to read them.

For the Old Testament verse we decided to have Sweeter's cousin read Song of Songs: 2:8-10, 14, 16a; 8: 6-7a

 

A reading from the Song of Songs

Hark! My lover-here he comes

Springing across the mountains,

Leaping across the hills

My lover is like a gazelle

Or a young stag.

Here he stands behind our wall,

Gazing through the windows,

Peering through the lattices.

My lover speaks; he says to me,

“Arise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one, and come!

“O my dove in the clefts of the rock,

In the secret recesses of the cliff,

Let me see you,

Let me hear your voice,

For your voice is sweet,

And you are lovely.”

My lover belongs to me and I to him.

He says to me:

“Set me as a seal on your heart,

As a seal on your arm;

For stern as death is love,

Relentless as the nether-world is devotion;

Its flames are a blazing fire.

Deep waters cannot quench love,

Nor floods sweep it away.”

The word of the Lord.

We are very excited to have Sweeter's cousin read this during our ceremony!

It is a beautiful quote and we are getting so excited that time is going so quickly!

Yay!