Song of Songs 7:11-13

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

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 7:11-13 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Song of Songs 1:6
• 2. Song of Songs 2:15
• 3. Song of Songs 2:13
• 4. S Song of Songs 4:13
• 5. Song of Songs 6:11
• 6. S Genesis 30:14
• 7. Song of Songs 4:16

Footnotes

• [a] Or "the henna bushes"