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Song 4 Commentary

You Are All Fair, My Love

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KEY THOUGHT: You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; [Song 4:9a NKJV]

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Song 4 NKJV

The Bridegroom Praises the Bride

The Beloved

4 Behold, you are fair, my love!
Behold, you are fair!
You have dove’s eyes behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
Going down from Mount Gilead.
²Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep
Which have come up from the washing,
Every one of which bears twins,
And none is ^[a]barren among them.
³Your lips are like a strand of scarlet,
And your mouth is lovely.
Your temples behind your veil
Are like a piece of pomegranate.
⁴Your neck is like the tower of David,
Built for an armory,
On which hang a thousand ^[b]bucklers,
All shields of mighty men.
⁵Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle,
Which feed among the lilies.

⁶Until the day breaks
And the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

⁷You are all fair, my love,
And there is no spot in you.
⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse,
With me from Lebanon.
Look from the top of Amana,
From the top of Senir and Hermon,
From the lions’ dens,
From the mountains of the leopards.

⁹You have ravished my heart,
My sister, my spouse;
You have ravished my heart
With one look of your eyes,
With one link of your necklace.
¹⁰How fair is your love,
My sister, my spouse!
How much better than wine is your love,
And the ^[c]scent of your perfumes
Than all spices!
¹¹Your lips, O my spouse,
Drip as the honeycomb;
Honey and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹²A garden ^[d]enclosed
Is my sister, my spouse,
A spring shut up,
A fountain sealed.
¹³Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits,
Fragrant henna with spikenard,
¹⁴Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spices—
¹⁵A fountain of gardens,
A well of living waters,
And streams from Lebanon.

The Shulamite

¹⁶Awake, O north wind,
And come, O south!
Blow upon my garden,
That its spices may flow out.
Let my beloved come to his garden
And eat its pleasant fruits.

Footnotes

a. Song of Solomon 4:2 bereaved
b. Song of Solomon 4:4 Small shields
c. Song of Solomon 4:10 fragrance
d. Song of Solomon 4:12 locked or barred

New King James Version (NKJV)

Song 4 Commentary

A man of few words? Not in this chapter. Not in this drama. Perhaps in some reality show, but not in a real love world. Men talk when stricken by love. Their words aren’t few at all.

He describes his bride’s anatomy in glowing terms. Her smile is generous; her lips are jewel red; her mouth is elegant and inviting; her cheeks are soft and radiant. The sweet and fragrant curves of her body – the man is hopelessly in love! And then he invites the bride to himself.

And all of this by design!

The lesson is simple. Let love – this intense love draw a woman to the man. Not money, fame, or power. Interestingly, the man here is drawn to a woman’s natural endowments. Nothing artificially made up. These are special gifts the LORD gives to the woman.

She has captured his heart – not by trick-and-hook. Plain and natural. Here the man describes his bride as a friend or a sister. Many have described it as a core value in a marriage.

Her beauty did the talking. It was an effective trap. Her response to the man’s request is simply yes. The man can enter his garden and enjoy the fruit. So concludes Chapter 4.

But who wouldn’t help but think about the bride and the groom of the New Testament! The saint is the bride, washed clean and dressed in white for her groom – the LORD Jesus Christ. The scripture is all love openly unpacked. Let the saint simply say yes. The invitation remains.

Of course, the bride of Chapter 4 is flawless. No woman matches her perfect physiological anatomy. Humanity knows that our flawed condition is always an issue in the eyes of the LORD God. And that is where the cross comes in. The LORD Jesus Christ came to make the impossible possible.

One of the many thoughts in this chapter is that a man hopelessly in love with the LORD cannot keep quiet about it. You cannot be drowned in God’s love and keep quiet at the same time. It becomes a moment of praise.

When viewed through the lens of the Book of Ecclesiastes, will this chapter be part of the “everything” that is vanity? Probably yes. The reason is simple. The height of love in this Chapter is impossible in human terms. It’s a target we can only dream of.

The man of Chapter 4 is impossible to find. The woman is also impossible. It leaves us with an eternal longing for more. The “more” is only achieved through the cross. Look to Jesus. Look to perfection. Then know He can cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Then true love can flood your heart!

Then “everything” isn’t vanity!

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It has been exciting learning how God can make things happen to his choosen one, God workout something wonderful and fulfils the promises he made to the father of Joseph.

God’s words remains true so are his promises and indeed it has been God working out the salvation of man Kind by Grace through Faith alone.

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Quite thought provoking. Thank you for the passage of scripture.