3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts. And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased. Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour. The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips. Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.
The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.
And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.
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Commentary on Song of Songs 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter,
Sgs 4:1-7
Here is,
Sgs 4:8-14
These are still the words of Christ to his church, expressing his great esteem of her and affection to her, the opinion he had of her beauty and excellency, the desire he had of, and the delight he had in, her converse and society. And so ought men to love their wives as Christ loves the church, and takes pleasure in it as if it were spotless and had no fault, when yet it is compassed with infirmity. Now, observe here,
Sgs 4:15-16
These seem to be the words of the spouse, the church, in answer to the commendations which Christ, the bridegroom, had given of her as a pleasant fruitful garden. Is she a garden?