I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
Parallel translations
- WEB I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
- BSB I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- NKJV I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, She who used to instruct me. I would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. (To the Daughters of Jerusalem)
- NASB “I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.
- NLT I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, my sweet pomegranate wine.
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Quick answer
She imagines bringing her beloved into her mother's house and sharing the choicest spiced wine with him. Love longs to draw the beloved into the intimacy of home.
Overview
Bringing him to her mother's house pictures a love welcomed within family and made secure and settled. The spiced wine and pomegranate juice speak of choice delights shared in intimacy. The verse expresses the longing of love for a home where it may be fully enjoyed, a foretaste of the settled home God prepares for those who love him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Song 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
- Song 7:12Let 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 4:10How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
- Gal 4:26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- Prov 9:2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
- 2 Tim 3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 5:46–47For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
- 1 Pet 1:10–12Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
- Song 7:9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
- Luke 16:29–31Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
- Acts 17:11–12These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
- 2 Pet 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
- Rev 19:10And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
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