The Song of Solomon. Chapter 4

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CHAP. IV.

1 Christ setteth forth the graces of the Church. 8 He sheweth his loue to her. 16 The Church prayeth to be made fit for his presence.

¹Behold, thou art faire, my loue, behold thou art faire, thou hast doues eyes within thy lockes: thy haire is as a flocke of goats, that appeare from mount Gilead.¹

²Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe that are euen shorne, which came vp from the washing: whereof euery one beare twinnes, and none is barren among them.

³Thy lips are like a threed of scarlet, and thy speach is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy lockes.

⁴Thy necke is like the tower of Dauid builded for an armorie, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mightie men.

⁵Thy two breasts, are like two yong Roes, that are twinnes, which feed among the lillies.⁵

⁶Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away, I will get mee to the mountaines of myrrhe, and to the hill of frankincense.⁶

⁷Thou art all faire, my loue, there is no spot in thee.⁷

⁸¶ Come with me from Lebanon (my spouse,) with me from Lebanon: looke from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the Lions dennes, from the mountaines of the Leopards.⁸

⁹Thou hast rauished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast rauished my heart, with one of thine eyes, with one chaine of thy necke.⁹

¹⁰How faire is thy loue, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy loue then wine! and the smell of thine oyntments then all spices!¹⁰

¹¹Thy lips, O my spouse! drop as the hony combe: hony and milke are vnder thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹²A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut vp, a fountaine sealed.¹²

¹³Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, Camphire, with Spikenaed,¹³

¹⁴Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and Cynamom, with all trees of Frankincense, Mirrhe and Aloes, with all the chiefe spices.

¹⁵A fountaine of gardens, a well of liuing waters, and streames from Lebanon.

¹⁶¶ Awake, O Northwinde, and come thou South, blow vpon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out: let my beloued come into his garden, and eate his pleasant fruits.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Song of Solomon Chapter 4

¹ Chap.1. 15 and 5. 12. , Chap.6. 5, 6. , Or, that eate of, &c.
⁵ Chap.7.3.
⁶ Chap.2. 17. , Hebr. breathe.
⁷ Ephes.5. 27.
⁸ Deut.3.9.
⁹ Or, taken away my heart.
¹⁰ Chap.1.2.
¹² Hebr. barred.
¹³ Or, Cypres.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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