Song of Solomon 4:13

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11 Your lips, O my spouse,
Drip as the honeycomb;
^aHoney and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
Is ^blike the fragrance of Lebanon.

12 A garden¹ enclosed
Is my sister, my spouse,
A spring shut up,
A fountain sealed.

13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits,
Fragrant henna with spikenard,

14 Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spices—

15 A fountain of gardens,
A well of ^aliving waters,
And streams from Lebanon.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Song of Solomon 4:13

Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates - This seems to refer to the fecundity of the bride or Jewish queen; to the former it would be a prediction; to the latter, a statement of what had already taken place. The word pardes , which we translate an orchard, is the same which has given birth to our paradise, a garden of pleasure. The other expressions, in this and the following verse, seem to refer wholly to matters of a connubial nature.

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