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Song of Songs 7:12

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Song of Songs 7:12 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
  • BSB Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.
  • NKJV Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has budded, Whether the grape blossoms are open, And the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
  • NASB “Let’s rise early and go to the vineyards; Let’s see whether the vine has grown And its buds have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.
  • NLT Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.

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Quick answer

She proposes rising early to see the budding vineyards and there to give her love to her beloved. Love links the renewal of springtime with the renewal of its own delight.

Overview

The blossoming vines and pomegranates signal spring, a fitting setting for love's flowering. The bride freely offers her love to her beloved in this place of fruitfulness. The frank yet pure expression of married affection is honored here, and the imagery of fruitful vineyards resonates with the biblical theme of the fruitfulness God delights to give.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Song 6:11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
  • Eph 6:24Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
  • Song 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
  • 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 1 Th 3:5–6For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
  • Song 2:13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
  • Ps 122:5For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
  • Heb 4:16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
  • Heb 2:13And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
  • Song 4:16Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
  • Heb 2:15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Ps 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
  • Ps 43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
  • Ps 63:3–8Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
  • Exod 25:22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
  • Rom 5:11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
  • Song 2:15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
  • Prov 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
  • Prov 24:30–31I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
  • Isa 18:5For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
  • Eccl 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  • Ezek 20:40–41For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
  • Acts 15:36And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the LORD, and see how they do.
  • 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
  • Heb 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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