9 I have compared you, my love,
to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots. 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
your neck with strings of jewels. 11 We will make you earrings of gold,
with studs of silver.
Beloved
12 While the king sat at his table,
my perfume spread its fragrance. 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh,
that lies between my breasts. 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
from the vineyards of En Gedi.
Lover 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love.
Behold, you are beautiful.
Your eyes are doves.
Beloved 16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;
and our couch is verdant.
Lover 17 The beams of our house are cedars.
Our rafters are firs.
Beloved
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Song of Solomon 1:9-17
Commentary on Song of Solomon 1:9-17
(Read Song of Solomon 1:9-17)
The Bridegroom gives high praises of his spouse. In the sight of Christ believers are the excellent of the earth, fitted to be instruments for promoting his glory. The spiritual gifts and graces which Christ bestows on every true believer, are described by the ornaments then in use, verse 16, speaks with praise of those holy ordinances in which true believers have fellowship with Christ. Whether the believer is in the courts of the Lord, or in retirement; whether following his daily labours, or confined on the bed of sickness, or even in a dungeon, a sense of the Divine presence will turn the place into a paradise. Thus the soul, daily having fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, enjoys a lively hope of an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance above.