The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Heart” it comes from the Hebrew Word “levav” which means “heart.”
The groom offers an extended, poetic celebration of his bride’s beauty. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Song of Solomon 4.
The beloved declares, “Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead,” praising her teeth like a flock of sheep, her lips like a thread of scarlet, her temples like a piece of pomegranate, her neck like the tower of David, builded for an armory.
The beloved describes her as fair, and no spot in her, inviting her to come with him from Lebanon, from the top of Amana, from Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards, declaring she has ravished his “heart,” “levav” in Hebrew, with one of her eyes, with one chain of her neck, how fair is her love, how much better than wine, and the smell of her ointments than all spices.
The beloved describes her as a garden enclosed, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, her plants being an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, spikenard, and every tree of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices, a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon, the bride responding, inviting the north wind to awake, and come, south, blowing upon her garden, that its spices may flow out, inviting her beloved to come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits, this chapter’s extended nature imagery celebrating both the bride’s beauty and the couple’s genuine, mutual invitation into deeper intimacy.
The beloved’s extended, detailed praise of his bride’s beauty, moving from her eyes to her lips to her entire being, models the kind of specific, wholehearted admiration genuine love naturally expresses rather than vague, generic compliment. The garden imagery, a spring shut up and a fountain sealed, invited to flow freely, beautifully portrays intimacy as a mutual, willing gift rather than something merely taken or demanded.
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