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Song of Songs 4:15

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:15 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
  • BSB You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down 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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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 her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
  • John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 7:38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
  • Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Ps 36:8–9They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
  • Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
  • Jer 18:13–14Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things. The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
  • Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • Jer 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
  • Song 4:12A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
  • Eccl 2:6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

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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.

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