Song of Solomon 4:1-8

1 How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.
2 Your teeth are as white as sheep that have just been shorn and washed. Not one of them is missing; they are all perfectly matched.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; how lovely they are when you speak. Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, round and smooth, with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it.
5 Your breasts are like gazelles, twin deer feeding among lilies.
6 I will stay on the hill of myrrh, the hill of incense, until the morning breezes blow and the darkness disappears.
7 How beautiful you are, my love; how perfect you are!
8 Come with me from the Lebanon Mountains, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Come down from the top of Mount Amana, from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon, where the lions and leopards live.

Song of Solomon 4:1-8 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.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. round and smooth; [Hebrew unclear.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.