Song 7 Commentary
I’m His, He Is Mine
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KEY THOUGHT: I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. [Song 7:10 NKJV]
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Song 7 NKJV
Expressions of Praise
The Beloved
7 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 Your navel is a rounded goblet;
It lacks no [a]blended beverage.
Your waist is a heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the hair of your head is like purple;
A king is held captive by your tresses.
6 How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!
7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breasts like its clusters.
8 I said, “I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of its branches.”
Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
The fragrance of your [b]breath like apples,
9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine.
The Shulamite
The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved,
[c]Moving gently the [d]lips of sleepers.
10 I am my beloved’s,
And his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved,
Let us go forth to the field;
Let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards;
Let us see if the vine has budded,
Whether the grape blossoms are open,
And the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give off a fragrance,
And at our gates are pleasant fruits,
All manner, new and old,
Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
Footnotes
a. Song of Solomon 7:2 Lit. mixed or spiced drink
b. Song of Solomon 7:8 Lit. nose
c. Song of Solomon 7:9 Gliding over
d. Song of Solomon 7:9 LXX, Syr., Vg. lips and teeth.
New King James Version (NKJV)
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Song 7 Commentary
The groom speaks at length. He describes his bride with parameters of beauty, elegance, and attraction. An important space for the woman, exclusively.
Could there be something special about this description of the bride that could possibly explain the woman’s role in creation?
Consider how the bride described her groom in Chapter 5. Radiant and ruddy; outstanding; purest gold; myrrh; topaz; ivory; and lapis lazuli. The description rings of value, commerce, industry, prosperity, and excellence of execution.
If the world consisted of males only, it would be functional, but we doubt if buildings would be painted!
There is definitely an important and significant difference in the roles or mandates of the genders. Perversion means everything has swapped places and roles – all contrary to the original design.
Look again at the description of a man. His role is functional. The woman’s role is “attraction”, being spotless – everything to do with her anatomy.
His beauty is functional. He performs. Value addition. Prosperity underlines his role.
The bride of Christ is, on the other hand, attractive at her core. Spotless. And here is something interesting: she isn’t spotless by artificial beautification. The Creator God makes her this way at the factory! The curves of the woman in this chapter are all natural endowments!
Salvation is the work of grace! So we pray for God’s grace to abound!
The first verse refers to the bride as the prince’s daughter. Of course, we know the groom is pictured as a king or someone with a kingly status. The bride, on the other hand, has been pictured as an ordinary working woman. If anything, someone darkened by the sun as a consequence of work.
Important: Her relationship with the groom elevates her status to a prince’s daughter. Her father becomes a prince! A man must examine his view of his bride and her father. Don’t diminish your father-in-law.
“Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field.” She has interest in the field! You cannot be a saved individual and have zero interest in Christ’s field!
Then and together – the bride and the groom, the woman and the man, the two and not more, male and female and not any other combination – they go around checking commerce and industry while in love.
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