Time Out, Episode 67

Text: Song of Solomon 4
Hymn: 497, Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord
Kretzmann Commentary: Song of Solomon
Bonus bumper: My Song is Love Unknown

I know some don’t like to read Song of Solomon because of the PG-13 imagery, but as I was reading it I got the same feeling I get when I read Ephesians 5 sometimes. This is how Solomon and Shulammite, Christ and the Church made holy, man and woman talk to each other in love, putting Hallmark to shame, and I am undone.

The “He” and the “She” that I read are from the ESV translators’ notes, depending on the gender of the Hebrew text.

The hymn, Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord, is a great Pentecost hymn. It’s tricky with both range and words.

 
Text: © 1941 Concordia Publishing House.
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Setting from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission.

Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord

1. Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord,
   With all Your graces now outpoured
   On each believer’s mind and heart;
   Your fervent love to them impart.
   Lord, by the brightness of Your light,
   In holy faith Your Church unite
   From ev’ry land and every tongue;
   This to Your praise, O Lord, our God, be sung.
   Alleluia, Alleluia!
2. Come, holy Light, guide divine,
   Now cause the Word of Life to shine.
   Teach us to know our God aright
   And call Him Father with delight.
   From ev’ry error keep us free;
   Let none but Christ our Master be
   That we in living faith abide,
   In Him, our Lord, with all our might confide.
   Alleluia, Alleluia!
3. Come, holy Fire, comfort true,
   Grant us the will Your work to do
   And in Your service to abide;
   Let trials turn us not aside.
   Lord, by Your pow’r prepare each heart
   And to our weakness strength impart
   That bravely here we may contend,
   Through life and death to You, our Lord, ascend.
   Alleluia, Alleluia!