A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Parallel translations
- WEB a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing 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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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 and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Ps 36:8–9They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Jer 18:13–14Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
- Rev 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
- Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
- Song 4:12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
- Eccl 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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