Song of Songs 4:1-5

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1 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone[a] ; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

Song of Songs 4:1-5 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.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Genesis 24:65
  • 2. S Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 5:12
  • 3. Genesis 37:25; Numbers 32:1; Song of Songs 6:5; Jeremiah 22:6; Micah 7:14
  • 4. Song of Songs 6:6
  • 5. Song of Songs 5:16
  • 6. S Song of Songs 1:5
  • 7. Song of Songs 6:7
  • 8. S Psalms 144:12; Song of Songs 7:4
  • 9. Ezekiel 27:10
  • 10. Song of Songs 7:3
  • 11. S Proverbs 5:19
  • 12. S Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 6:2-3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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