A wedding poem.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 141)
Psalm 45 is an epithalamion.
- All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
- In many-colored robes she is led to the king,
- with her virgin companions following behind her.
- With joy and gladness they are led along
- as they enter the palace of the king.
Song of Solomon is a collection of love poems that form an exalted epithalamion about a single courtship and wedding.
- Go out, O daughters of Zion,
- and look upon King Solomon,
- with the crown with which his mother crowned him
- on the day of his wedding,
- on the day of the gladness of his heart.
(Song of Solomon 3:11)
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 141)