Song of Solomon 4:15

Translations

Modern

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Traditional

A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

Literal

…a fountain of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing down from Lebanon.

Latin

Fons hortorum, puteus aquarum viventium, quæ fluunt impetu de Libano.

Original

Hebrew

English

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Notes

Song of Solomon 4:1–5:1

The marriage is now complete.
This poem is the first "descriptive poem" in the book (see also Song of Solomon 5:10–16; 6:4–6; 7:2–8). Scholars often call these poems by the Arabic term wasf (meaning "description"). These poems are similar to songs sung at modern Arabic weddings. They are preludes to sexual intimacy. In describing physical beauty, they often start at the head and move downward.

Theme notes and profiles

Beauty in Nature Human Sexuality Living Water

Related verses

John 4:10
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 7:38
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 18:13–14
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
Psalm 46:4
There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
Psalm 36:8–9
They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Song of Solomon 4:12
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Places

Lebanon: A mountainous region known for its cedar trees

Glossary

Beauty Song of Solomon

Topics

Bridegroom: Song of Gardens: Often Refreshed by Fountains Lebanon: Many Streams Came From Lebanon: Streams of Well of Water Wells of the Holy Spirit in Saints Wells: Many Supplied from Lebanon

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