Song of Songs

Chapter 4

The Bridegroom and The Bride

Song of Songs 4 is dominated by the bridegroom's extended praise of the bride, moving from her visible beauty to her power over his heart and finally to imagery of fragrant abundance and enclosed delight. The chapter ends with the bride welcoming his enjoyment of the garden-like love he has celebrated, turning admiration into invitation.

As the fourth chapter of Song of Songs, this passage intensifies the book's pattern of mutual praise by lingering over beauty with reverent delight rather than haste. It presents covenant love as both guarded and generous, showing that admiration ripens into invitation when trust, desire, and delight are joined together.

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Song of Songs 4

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vv. 1-15

The Bridegroom

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H¹ow beautiful you are, my darling— ²Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep ³Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, ⁴Your neck is like the tower of David, ⁵Your breasts are like two fawns, ⁶Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, ⁷You are altogether beautiful, my darling;

⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, ⁹You have captured my heart, ¹⁰How delightful is your love, ¹¹Your lips, my bride,

¹²My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, ¹³Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates ¹⁴with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, ¹⁵You are a garden spring,

vv. 16

The Bride

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A¹⁶wake, O north wind,

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