Song of Solomon 4:10 (LSB)

Passage

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, May you come with me from Lebanon. Journey down from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

Song of Solomon 4:9 You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.

Song of Solomon 4:10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!

Song of Solomon 4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip honey from the comb; Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "beautiful", "love", "sister", "bride", "much", "better", and "than". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "beautiful" and "love", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "You have made my heart beat faster..." into verse 11's "Your lips my bride drip honey from...", so "beautiful" and "love" belong inside that flow. In Song of Solomon context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "beautiful" and "love" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.