Song of Solomon 4:12-16

12 "A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a 1spring 2sealed up.
13 "Your shoots are an 3orchard of 4pomegranates With 5choice fruits *, 6henna with nard plants,
14 7Nard and saffron, calamus and 8cinnamon, With all the trees of 9frankincense, 10Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.
15 "You are a garden spring, A well of 11fresh water, And streams flowing from Lebanon."
16 "Awake, O north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my 12garden breathe out fragrance, Let its spices be wafted abroad. May 13my beloved come into his garden And eat its 14choice fruits!"

Song of Solomon 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 14

  • 1. Proverbs 5:15-18
  • 2. Genesis 29:3
  • 3. Ecclesiastes 2:5
  • 4. Song of Songs 6:11; Song of Songs 7:12
  • 5. Song of Songs 2:3; Song of Songs 4:16; Song of Songs 7:13
  • 6. Song of Songs 1:14
  • 7. Song of Songs 1:12
  • 8. Exodus 30:23
  • 9. Song of Songs 4:6
  • 10. Psalms 45:8; Song of Songs 3:6; John 19:39
  • 11. Zechariah 14:8; John 4:10
  • 12. Song of Songs 5:1; Song of Songs 6:2
  • 13. Song of Songs 1:13; Song of Songs 2:3, 8; Song of Songs 6:2
  • 14. Song of Songs 4:13

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