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Song of Songs 4

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1Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair! You have dove’s eyes behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, Going down from Mount Gilead. ✦ 2Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them. ✦ 3Your lips are like a strand of scarlet, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil Are like a piece of pomegranate. ✦ 4Your neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armory, On which hang a thousand bucklers, All shields of mighty men. ✦ 5Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies. ✦ 6Until the day breaks And the shadows flee away, I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh And to the hill of frankincense. ✦ 7You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you. ✦ 8Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions’ dens, From the mountains of the leopards. ✦ 9You have ravished my heart, My sister, my spouse; You have ravished my heart With one look of your eyes, With one link of your necklace. ✦ 10How fair is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices! ✦ 11Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon. ✦ 12A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed. ✦ 13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard, ✦ 14Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices— ✦ 15A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon. The Shulamite ✦ 16Awake, O north wind, And come, O south! Blow upon my garden, That its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden And eat its pleasant fruits. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Song 6 ·13Song 7 ·12Song 1 ·12Song 4 ·12Song 5 ·11Ps 45 ·7Song 2 ·6Rev 21 ·4

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 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.

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