Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
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Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
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Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
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(7-13) Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine hath budded, whether the vine-blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower; there will I give thee my love.
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Passages linked to Song of Solomon 7:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
- Psalms 122:5 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.
- Song of Solomon 7:6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5-6 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain. But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
- Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
- Psalms 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
- Psalms 63:3-8 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
- Psalms 73:25 Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
- Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
- Proverbs 24:30-31 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
- Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.
- Song of Solomon 4:16 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.
- Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
- Ezekiel 20:40-41 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things. I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
- Acts 15:36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- Romans 5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
- Hebrews 2:13 Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”
- Hebrews 2:15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- Hebrews 4:16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Hebrews 12:15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If the people that are called to Christ, bring…
If the people that are called to Christ, bring forth any fruit.
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Son 7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Ver. 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards.] Heb., Let us morning it. Manicemas (that is, Gellius’ {a} word), Let us be up early and at it. Here she promiseth not to be found henceforth unready, drowsy, sluggish, but night and day to watch and attend that hour, and to inquire and learn out all the signs and tokens when she may come to be perfectly knit to Christ. But it is worthy of our observation that she would neither go any way nor do anything without Christ’s company, for she had lately felt the grief of being without him, though but "for a small moment," as the prophet hath it. She had felt herself that while in the suburbs of hell as it were. She therefore holds him as fast as the restored cripple did Peter and John; {Act 3:11} she cleaves as close to him as Ruth did to Naomi; or Elisha did to his master Elijah, when now be knew he should be taken from his head. {2Ki 2:2} She seems here to speak to Christ as once Barak did to Deborah, "If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go." {Jdg 4:8} And whereas she seemeth, as the forwarder of the two, to excite and exhort Christ to "get up early to visit the vines," &c., we may not imagine any unwillingness in him to the performance of his office as "shepherd and bishop of our souls," {1Pe 2:25} or any need on his part to be quickened and counselled by her, as Manoah was by his wife, or Aquila by Priscilla, whence she is set before him, {Rom 16:3} for "who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?" {Isa 40:13} But the Church requesteth these things of Christ for her own encouragement and further benefit; that having his continual presence and fellowship, she may the more cheerfully and successfully go on with her duty. So when we press God with arguments in prayer, it is not so much to persuade him to help us, "for the Father himself loveth you," {Joh 16:27} saith Christ, and needs no arguments, σποι δοντα και αυτον οτσυνειν, {b} to incite or entice him to show us mercy, as to persuade our own hearts to more faith, love, humility, &c., that we may be in a capacity to receive that mercy that of his own accord he hath for us, and even waits to confer upon us. {Isa 30:18} Look how a man that would make a bladder capacious to hold sweet spices, blows it and rubs it, and blows it, and rubs it many times over to make it hold the more: so it is here. And as when a man that is in a ship plucks a rock, it seems as if he plucked the rock nearer the ship, whenas in very deed the ship is plucked nearer the rock: so when God’s people think they draw God to them with their arguments, in truth they draw themselves nearer to God, who sometimes ascribeth that to us which is his own work, that we may abound more and more. Certum est nos facere quod facimus, sed ille facit ut faciamus. {c} True it is that we do what we do, but it is he that giveth us to do what we do in his service. The bowls of the candlestick had no oil but that which dropped from the olive branches.
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Whether the tender grape appear.] Heb., Open, and so prove itself to be a grape, which in the bud can hardly be discerned. True grace may be doubted about as long as it is small and feeble. Weak things are oft so obscured with their contraries that it remaineth uncertain whether they be or no. He that cried out, and that with tears, "I believe, Lord, help mine unbelief" {Mar 9:24} - that is, my weak faith - could not well tell whether he had any faith at all or not. Add growth to grace, and it will be out of question. Meanwhile that is a sweet promise, "I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy buds." {Isa 44:3} And again, "Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all." {Isa 65:8}
And the pomegranates bud forth.] {See Trapp on "Son 4:13"}
There will I give thee my loves,] i.e., The fruition of my graces, and fruits of thy faith, thanks, good works, &c. And this is that which Christ requireth of us all - viz., that we bestow all our loves upon him, even the liveliest and warmest of our affections. Love him we must truly, that there be no halting, and totally, that there he no halving. Hold him we must "better, dearer to us than ten sons," &c., and communicate all our loves to him as best worthy. What he gives us back again we may bestow upon others; we may love other things, but no otherwise than as they convey love to us from Christ, and may be means of drawing our affections unto Christ. We must love all things else as they have a beam of Christ in them, and may lead us to him; accounting that we rightly love ourselves no further than we love the Lord Jesus Christ with a love of complacence.
{a} A. Gel. lib. iii., cap. 29.
{b} Homer.
{c} Augustine.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Let us get up early: the church having offended…
Let us get up early: the church having offended and lost her Beloved by her former laziness, now doubles her diligence, and discovers how earnestly she was set upon the following work.
To the vineyards; to particular congregations. See Son 6:11; Isa 5:1.
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Let us see if the vines flourish &c.; let us inquire into the success of our labours, what souls are brought in and built up, how they prosper and grow in grace, whether they abound in good works, &c.
There will I give thee my loves; there I will discover the sincerity and fervency of my affections to thee, and maintain communion with thee in thy holy ordinances.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Early - The church having lost her beloved by…
Early - The church having lost her beloved by her former laziness, now doubles her diligence. Vineyards - To particular congregations. Let us see - Let us inquire into the success of our labours, what souls are brought in and built up, and how they prosper and grow in grace. There - There I will discover the fervency of my affections to thee, and maintain communion with thee in thy holy ordinances.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. Let us get up early to the…
Verse 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards] When in the country, we shall have the better opportunity to contemplate the progress of the spring vegetation; and there she promises to be peculiarly affectionate to him.
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Son 7:12. Let us get up early — The church having lost her beloved, by her former laziness, now doubles her diligence; to the vineyards — To particular congregations. Let us see if the vines, &c. — Let us inquire into the success of our labours, what souls are brought in and built up, and how they prosper and grow in grace. There will I give thee my loves — There I will discover the fervency of my affections to thee, and maintain communion with thee in thy holy ordinances.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Let us get up, etc. — Better, Early,…
12. Let us get up, etc. — Better, Early, will we stroll in the vineyards; we will see, etc.
My loves — My affections. She speaks as a queen.
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“With a regal grace In her sun-kissed face,
And a light in her beaming eye.”
she assures him that he shall have what she refused to the King.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. if the vine flourish] whether the vine hath…
12. if the vine flourish] whether the vine hath budded, R.V. Cp. Son_6:11.
whether the tender grape appear] Rather, and its blossom be open, R.V. For the word semâdhar = ‘blossom,’ cp. ch. Son_2:13; Son_2:15. It is found nowhere else in the O.T.
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there will I give thee] There, in contrast to here and now. As Oettli remarks, first freedom, then love.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Tender grape appear.—Literally, vine blossome open. (See Note…
(12) Tender grape appear.—Literally, vine blossome open. (See Note on Son_2:13.)
My loves—i.e., caresses. LXX., as before, read “breasts.”
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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The woman continues to speak to the man.
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rise early
"get up early" or "wake up early"
have budded
"have begun to bloom"
blossoms
flowers when they are open
are in flower
"have flowers open on the plant"
I will give you my love
"I will make love with you"
translationWords
vineyard
vine
pomegranate
love
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