Anni La Dodi

Valentine's Day


Song of Songs 6:3

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine

In Hebrew...

Anni la dodi va dodi li

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"Don't you know I was made to love her,
Built a world all around her"
Yah! Hey, hey, hey.

"I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Lula Mae Hardaway, from an album by the same name

The Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, is just that-a love song. Song of Songs is a term like King of Kings, it's a superlative. This is the greatest song, the greatest hymn in all scripture. Thus, it is the Song of Songs.

Scholars have debated since it was written about exactly who the beloved is. Is the beloved one of the wives or concubines of Solomon? Is the beloved the Lord-the song a love offering from Solomon. Is the song a hymn for the people to sing to the Lord? Is it a hymn from the Lord to the people? Which is right? Which is wrong?

Somewhere there is a truth, there is an answer to this question. But the good news is that from where we sit, where we live, is finding the answer that important? Let the academics and the theologians and the historians and the text critical biblical interpreters try to figure that out. What if it is a song from a man to a woman? Or to the Lord? Or from the Lord? What if it is all of these things and more? What if it is a song of love from the creator to the creation?

As for me, I say don't worry about it. Treat the song like a love song from the Savior. And a love song to the Savior. And treat it like a song to the love of your life.

Just know that this is the song of love, the greatest song of all times. And in the Lord there is enough love to go around for all of these answers.