Song of Songs 4:12
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up,
What it says
He calls her a locked garden, sealed spring, and enclosed fountain.
What it is doing
This verse emphasizes the guarded and exclusive nature of her love.
In context
1How 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,