Cantar de los cantares 4:12-16

12 Tú eres mi jardín privado, tesoro mío, esposa mía,
un manantial apartado, una fuente escondida.

13 Tus muslos
resguardan un paraíso de granadas
con especias exóticas:
alheña con nardo,

14 nardo con azafrán,
cálamo aromático y canela,
con toda clase de árboles de incienso, mirra y áloes,
y todas las demás especias deliciosas.

15 Tú eres una fuente en el jardín,
un manantial de agua fresca
que fluye de las montañas del Líbano.

16 La joven
¡Despierta, viento del norte!
¡Levántate, viento del sur!
Soplen en mi jardín
y esparzan su fragancia por todas partes.
Ven a tu jardín, amado mío;
saborea sus mejores frutos.

Cantar de los cantares 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.