Song of Solomon 4:9-16

9 My sister, my bride, you have thrilled my heart; you have thrilled my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one sparkle from your necklace.

10 Your love is so sweet, my sister, my bride. Your love is better than wine, and your perfume smells better than any spice.

11 My bride, your lips drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue. Your clothes smell like the cedars of Lebanon.

12 My sister, my bride, you are like a garden locked up, like a walled-in spring, a closed-up fountain.

13 Your limbs are like an orchard of pomegranates with all the best fruit, filled with flowers and nard,

14 nard and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with trees of incense, myrrh, and aloes -- all the best spices.

15 You are like a garden fountain -- a well of fresh water flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

16 Awake, north wind. Come, south wind. Blow on my garden, and let its sweet smells flow out. Let my lover enter the garden and eat its best fruits.

Song of Solomon 4:9-16 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.