Song of Solomon 7:6

6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

Song of Solomon 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Song of Solomon 7:6

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
] These are the words of the King in the galleries, wondering at the church's beauty, it being incomparable and inexpressible, it could not be said well how great it was; and expressing the strength of his love to her, which was invariably the same as ever. Of the "fairness" of the church, and of this title, "love", see ( Song of Solomon 1:9 Song of Solomon 1:15 ) ( 2:7 ) ; and here she is said also to be "pleasant" to him, as his spouse and bride, in whom he takes infinite delight and pleasure, loving her with a love of complacency and delight; and therefore adds, "for delights", which he had in her before the world was, ( Proverbs 8:31 ) . She was all delight ^F7 to him; her words, her actions and gestures, her comely countenance, her sweet and pleasant voice in prayer and praise, her ravishing looks of faith and love, her heavenly airs, and evangelic walk; in all which she appeared beautiful and delightful, beyond all human thought and expression.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 "Meae deliciae", Plauti Stichus, Act. 5. Sc. 5.

Song of Solomon 7:6 In-Context

4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;