Our Green Couch

Love Better Than Wine · Song of Songs 1

Story guide: The woman answers his praise with admiration of her own, then describes their shared resting place through greenery, cedar, and cypress. Notice the lovers seated beneath the trees. The branches turn the outdoors into an imagined house, expressing ease and closeness without requiring a literal building or a new event.

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16Look, you are beautiful, my beloved—indeed, pleasant! Our couch is also green.

17The beams of our houses are cedars; our rafters are cypresses.

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