Song of Songs 7:10-13

Woman

10 I belong to my love, and his desire^[a] is for me.^[b]

11 Come, my love, let's go to the field; let's spend the night among the henna blossoms.^[c]

12 Let's go early to the vineyards; let's see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom.^[d] There I will give you my love.

13 The mandrakes^[e] give off a fragrance, and at our doors is every delicacy- new as well as old. I have treasured them up for you, my love.

Song of Songs 7:10-13 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Gn 3:16; 4:7
• [b]. Sg 2:16; 6:3; 8:6
• [c]. Or the villages
• [d]. Sg 6:11
• [e]. Gn 30:14-16