Graphic Bible · Scene 11 of 14
Song of Songs 8:11
Solomon's Vineyard
A Love Many Waters Cannot Quench · Song of Songs 8
Story guide: The poem describes Solomon's vineyard through keepers, fruit, and a required payment. Notice the harvest baskets and silver coins in the foreground. They make the economic arrangement visible, preparing for the contrast with 'my own vineyard' in the next verse without identifying these workers with the lovers.
Open this scene in the reader →11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave the vineyard to keepers. Each one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit.
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