Song of Solomon 4:7 (WEB)

Passage

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 4:5 Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Solomon 4:7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

Song of Solomon 4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "beautiful", "love", and "spot". 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 6's "Until the day is cool and the..." into verse 8's "Come with me from Lebanon my bride...", 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.