Song of Solomon 7:11-13

Rendezvous in the Countryside

11 Come, my beloved, let us {go out to the countryside}; let us spend the night in the villages.

12 Let us rise early [to go] to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, [whether] the grape blossom has opened, and [whether] the pomegranates {are in bloom}; there I will give my love to you.

13 The mandrakes give [off their] fragrance, and {over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit}; both {fresh and dried fruit I have stored up} for you, O my beloved.

Song of Solomon 7:11-13 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]. Literally "go forth into the field"
• [b]. Or "lodge"
• [c]. Or "let us go"
• [d]. Or "sprouted"
• [e]. Literally "have bloomed"
• [f]. Or "over our doorways all choice [things]"
• [g]. Literally "new also old I have laid up"