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Song of Songs 4:15

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You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:15 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
  • KJV A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
  • NKJV A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon. The Shulamite
  • NASB “You are a garden spring, A well of fresh water, And flowing streams from Lebanon.”
  • NLT You are a garden fountain, a well of fresh water streaming down from Lebanon’s mountains.

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Quick answer

She is a garden fountain, a well of living water flowing from Lebanon. It pictures her as a source of life and refreshment.

Overview

Beyond a sealed spring, she is now a fountain of gardens and a well of living waters, fresh and life-giving. The image moves from enclosure to overflowing blessing. "Living waters" point forward to the life Christ gives, and the believer, filled by Him, becomes a source of refreshment to others (John 4:14; 7:38).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 11

  • John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
  • John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 7:38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
  • Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  • Ps 36:8–9They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
  • Ps 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
  • Jer 18:13–14Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
  • Rev 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
  • Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  • Song 4:12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
  • Eccl 2:6I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

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Christ at the center

The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.

How Song of Songs 4:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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A fountainמַעְיָןof gardensגַּןa wellבְּאֵרof livingחַיwatersמַיִםand streamsנָזַלfrom Lebanonלְבָנוֹן
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