Song of Solomon 4:16
Rise up, north wind, and advance, south wind. Send a breeze through my garden, and carry its aromatic scents.
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In The King James Version
In Context
15The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:6it circles through the south, and arcs toward the north. The spirit continues on, illuminating everything in its circuit, and turning again in its cycle.
Song of Solomon 2:3Bride to Chorus: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat beneath the shadow of the one whom I desired, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.
Song of Solomon 5:1Bride: May my beloved enter into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees.
Song of Solomon 7:12Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages.
Isaiah 51:9Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?
Ezekiel 37:9And he said to me: “Prophesy to the spirit! Prophesy, O son of man, and you shall say to the spirit: Thus says the Lord God: Approach, O spirit, from the four winds, and blow across these ones who were slain, and revive them.”
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 4:16
The Love of the Church to Christ. 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. These seem to be the words of the spouse, the church, in answer to the commendations which Christ, the bridegroom, had given of her as a pleasant fruitful garden. Is she a garden? I. She owns her dependence upon Christ himself to make… Read the whole commentary →