Song of Solomon 4:8-9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 4:1-16

SECTION 3. The Loving Couple Are Married And The Marriage Is Consummated (Song of Solomon 3:6 to Song of Solomon 5:1 ). The young maiden need not have worried. Her beloved had not forgotten her. And soon the arrangements went forward for the wedding. In her love she had never really thought about the greatness and splendor of her beloved. But now it was brought home to her in its totality when a splendid litter arrived accompanied by the bridegroom and his friends, and she was taken in great... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 4:8

The Final Love-Making. The BRIDEGROOM speaks love to his bride. “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.” The bridegroom invites his beloved bride to enter the equivalent of heaven on earth with him as they make love together, visualized in terms of taking her to the great mountains of Lebanon, in the places where the lions have their dens and the mountain... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 4:9-11

“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. How fair is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! And the fragrance of your oils than all manner of spices! Your lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb, Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.” The bridegroom reveals the depths of his love for his bride. She has ravished his... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 4:9-12

Song of Solomon 4:9-2 Kings : . The Resistless Charm of the Beautiful Bride.— In the Oriental manner this enchantment is expressed in the sensuous terms of wine, honey, and delicious odours.— sister is found in old Egyptian love-songs for the bride.— ravish, steal away the heart, probably expresses the meaning of the rare Heb. form, which some translate hearten, encourage. The word glance seems to be implied after eyes— one chain of thy neck: probably a mistake for something that we cannot... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 4:8

Come with me unto the mountains of myrrh, &c., mentioned Song of Solomon 4:6, from Lebanon, a known mountain in the north of Canaan, which is sometimes mentioned as a pleasant and glorious place, as Song of Solomon 5:15; Isaiah 35:2; Hosea 14:6, &c., in regard of its goodly cedars; and sometimes as a barren wilderness, as Isaiah 29:17, and seat of wild beasts, as 2 Kings 14:9, &c. Which latter sense seems more agreeable, both to the opposition which is here tacitly made between this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 4:9

Thou hast ravished my heart; I am overcome with thy beauty, and therefore am so desirous of thy company. My sister; so he calls her, partly because both he and she had one and the same father, to wit, God, yea, and mother too, being both at this time born in and of the commonwealth and church of Israel; and partly to show the greatness of his love to her, which is such, as cannot be sufficiently expressed by any one relation, but must borrow the perfections and affections of all to describe it.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Song of Solomon 4:8

NotesSong of Solomon 4:8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon; look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards‘Come with me’ (תָּבוֹאִי אִתִּי tabhoi itti). אִתִּי sometimes read as the imperative of אָתָה ‘to come.’ So the SEPTUAGINT and VULGATE, followed by COVERDALE and LUTHER. Viewed by most as from אֵֽת ‘with’ and י ‘me.’ So the TARGUM, DIODATI and MARTIN. By others as denoting ‘to me.’ Solomon... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Song of Solomon 4:9-15

NotesSong of Solomon 4:9. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. ‘Thou hast ravished my heart’ (לִבַּבְתִּנִי libbabhtini, a verb formed from לִבֵּב libbebh, from the noun לבב lebhabh, a heart); ‘thou hast wounded or taken away my heart.’ GESENIUS. ‘Hast enchanted me, made me wholly thine own.’ ZÖCKLER, DELITZSCH. According to this view the Pril form of the verb has a privative signification like סִכֵּל... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Song of Solomon 4:9

1 {sister] The word "sister" here is of infinitely delicate significance, intimating the very whiteness of purity in the midst of an ardour which is, like the shekinah, aglow but unspeakably holy. Sin has almost deprived us of the capacity even to stand with unshod feet before this burning bush. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Song of Solomon 4:1-16

Chapter 4And now the bridegroom speaks.Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bears twins, [and you're not missing any] there is none is barren among them ( Song of Solomon 4:1-2 ).Now I don't know that if you would try to express your love to your girlfriend like this... read more