Song of Solomon 7:11-13

The Bride Gives Her Love

11 ¹Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;^[a]

12 let us go out early to the vineyards ²and see whether the vines have budded, whether ³the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

13 ⁴The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, ⁵new as well as old, which I have laid 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.

Cross References

• 1. [Song of Songs 2:10; Song of Songs 4:8]
• 2. Song of Songs 6:11
• 3. Song of Songs 2:13, 15
• 4. Genesis 30:14; Song of Songs 4:13
• 5. [Matthew 13:52]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or among the henna plants