Song of Songs 4:12-16

12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
15 You are[a] a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.

She

16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.

Song of Songs 4:12-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 4

In this chapter is contained a large commendation of the church's beauty by Christ; first, more particularly, by an enumeration of several parts, as her eyes, hair, teeth, lips, temples, neck, and breasts, So 4:1-5; and more generally, So 4:7; And having observed where he himself was determined to go, he invites her to go with him; which he enforces, partly from the danger she was exposed unto where she was So 4:6,8; and partly from the comeliness of her person and graces in his esteem; with which he was ravished, and therefore was extremely desirous of her company, So 4:9-11; And then enters into some new descriptions of her; as a garden and orchard, as a spring and fountain, So 4:12-14; all which she makes to be owing to him, So 4:15; And the chapter is closed with an order from Christ to the winds to blow on his garden, and cause the spices of it to flow out; and with an invitation of the church to Christ, to come into his garden, and relax there, So 4:16.

Cross References 15

  • 1. ver 16; Song of Songs 5:1; Song of Songs 6:2; Isaiah 5:7
  • 2. S ver 8
  • 3. Proverbs 5:15-18
  • 4. Song of Songs 6:11; Song of Songs 7:12
  • 5. Song of Songs 1:14
  • 6. S Exodus 30:23
  • 7. S Song of Songs 3:6
  • 8. S Numbers 24:6
  • 9. Song of Songs 1:12
  • 10. Isaiah 27:2; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 31:12
  • 11. Proverbs 5:18
  • 12. S ver 12
  • 13. S ver 10
  • 14. Song of Songs 7:13
  • 15. Song of Songs 2:3; Song of Songs 5:1

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "I am" (spoken by "She" )
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