Song of Songs 7:9-13

and your mouth like the best wine.

She

9 May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.^[a]

10 I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages.^[b]

12 Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

13 The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Song of Songs 7:9-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 7

In this chapter Christ gives a fresh commendation of the beauty of his church, in a different order and method than before; beginning with her "feet", and so rising upwards to the "hair" of her head, and the roof of her mouth, So 7:1-9; And then the church asserts her interest in him, and his desire towards her, So 7:10; and invites him to go with her into the fields, villages, and vineyards, and offers various reasons, by which she urges him to comply with her invitation, So 7:11-13.

Cross References

• 1. Song of Songs 5:16
• 2. Psalms 45:11
• 3. Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 6:3
• 4. S Song of Songs 1:6
• 5. Song of Songs 2:15
• 6. Song of Songs 2:13
• 7. S Song of Songs 4:13
• 8. Song of Songs 6:11
• 9. S Genesis 30:14
• 10. Song of Songs 4:16

Footnotes

• [a]. Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew "lips of sleepers"
• [b]. Or "the henna bushes"