Song of Solomon 4:13 (WEB)

Passage

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 4:11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

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

Song of Solomon 4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

Song of Solomon 4:14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

Song of Solomon 4:15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shoots", "orchard", "pomegranates", "precious", "fruits", "henna", "spikenard", and "plants". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shoots" and "orchard", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "A locked up garden is my sister..." into verse 14's "spikenard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with...", so "shoots" and "orchard" 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 "shoots" and "orchard" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.