I've always thought of this phrase in Song of Songs like "many bad things cannot overcome love; nothing can overtake love." A sort of "true love conquers all" line. However, I think it's something different. "Quench"? Like to quench thirst. Whit if it actually means "Nothing can quench to longing of Love"? No one, when they experience Love says "Ok, I've had my fill." No, when we truly taste of Love, we are simultaneously satisfied and long for more. Many waters cannot quench Love. Once you've tasted Love, you are ruined for anything else. Many waters cannot quench this Love, cannot quench this longing. Oh we try. We try to fill the longing (after all, who likes to long?) but this powerful Love cannot be quenched.
When we come to Love Himself and encounter His beauty, it creates a beautiful and never-ending cycle of every being satisfied and ever longing for more.
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