Song of Solomon 4:2 (WEB)

Passage

Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 4:2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

Song of Solomon 4:3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "teeth", "like", "newly", "shorn", "flock", "come", "washing", and "where". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "teeth" and "like", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Behold you are beautiful my love Behold..." into verse 3's "Your lips are like scarlet thread Your...", so "teeth" and "like" 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 "teeth" and "like" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.