Song of Songs 4

Treated in 9 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 4:7 You are beautiful in every way, my darling; there is no flaw in you. 3
  • 4:12 My sister, my bride, is a garden locked up, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 3
  • 4:1 How beautiful you are, my darling! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves seen through your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats pouring down the slopes of Mount Gilead. 2
  • 4:16 Wake up, north wind; come, south wind! Blow on my garden and let its fragrance drift out. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits. 1

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song iv. 1

    …and arresting attention. “Behold, thou art fair, My love; behold, thou art fair.” (Sol. Song iv. 1.) His opinion He publishes abroad even now, and one day from the throne of His glory He…

  2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Song 4.1

    …but when comforting time was come, I heard one preach a sermon upon those words in the Song 4.1, ‘Behold thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair.’ But at that time he made these…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Cant. iv. 7

    …his spouse until he says of her, “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee,” Cant. iv. 7. Partly, he takes away our spots and stains, by the “renewing of the Holy Ghost;” and…

  4. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    The Great Separation cites Cant. iv. 7

    …they are comely and honourable in His. They are all fair. He sees "no spot" in them. (Cant. iv. 7.) Their weaknesses and short-comings do not break off the union between Him and them. He…

  5. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Forgiveness cites Cant. iv. 7

    …with His own righteousness, and says, “Thou art all fair, there is no spot in thee.” (Cant. iv. 7.) Blessed be God that it is so! I verily believe if the best of us all had only one blot…

  6. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites Cant. iv. 12

    …only the love is given to God, but the soul. “A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse” (Cant. iv. 12). The heart of a believer is Christ’s garden. The flower growing in it is love mixed with…

  7. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus Christ the Son of God cites Cant. iv. 12–14

    …them,” Zeph. iii. 17; — and a garden for fruit, yea, pleasant fruit; so he describes it, Cant. iv. 12–14, “A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy…

  8. Communion with God · John Owen

    Other consequential affections cites Cant. iv. 12

    …to him in comparison of them. They are his garden; the rest of the world, a wilderness. Cant. iv. 12, “A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” They…

  9. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Growth in Grace cites Cant 4:16

    …grace. The church prays for the blowing of the Spirit, that her spices might flow forth. Cant 4:16. (2.) A Christian grows gradu, in the degree of grace. He goes from strength to strength…