The Bridegroom and the Bride · Day 4 of 8
Day 4 — Song of Songs 4
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1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
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16 Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
The Lesson
“You are all beautiful, my love; there is no spot in you” (v. 7). How? Because He made it true — He washed His bride Himself. This is the exact language Paul uses: Christ gave Himself for the church “to cleanse her with the washing of water by the word... having no spot or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:25–27). And if Day 1 left you wondering — He sees it, then He washes it. “No spot” doesn't mean we never sin; it means His cross accomplished our cleansing (1 John 1:9). Yes, the compliments sound strange to us — shiny black goats cascading down a hillside meant rich, beautiful hair; a matched flock of sheep meant bright, complete teeth; David's tower meant upright grace. He admires everything about her. “A garden locked, a spring sealed” (v. 12): she belongs to one, and one only — and for the generation growing up now, hear the call: keep your body, your mind, your future marriage sacred and protected, reserving your deepest intimacy for the covenant God designed. Don't miss 4:16 — she invites Him into the garden. The bride wants Him there. That's the whole story: He comes, and she says come.
Live It
Thank Jesus today that when He looks at you, He sees what His cross accomplished: “no spot.”