4:1 Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.
Should young children learn sex education? The answer is yes, but not from their friends, Hollywood, or from public schools. Song of Songs is an inspired book which teaches sex education at the highest and deepest level in which it can be taught. It is meant to be studied by all ages. The Lord Jesus Christ had mastered the entire Old Testament by the time he was 13 years old. This biblical education of Jesus included the Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon included sex education. If every young child would master the Book of Solomon before puberty, then there would be less teenage fornication, less abortions, less same sex relationships, and less transgenderism. There would be more sexual purity among young men and women. Instead, today's teenagers are learning sex education from the devil himself. Teenagers are learning sex education through the medium of television, theatre, literature, and pop music.
Solomon praises the beauty of his new wife. She was wearing a veil. Brides wore veils until their wedding night. This was why Jacob did not recognize Leah on his wedding night.
Shulamite’s eyes glistened through her veil. Her eyes were like those of beautiful doves, which symbolized purity. Her hair was like a flock of black goats.
4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly-shorn sheep coming up from the washing place; each of them has a twin, and not one of them is missing.
Shulamite’s teeth were white as young sheep. None of them were missing.
4:3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread; your mouth is lovely. Your forehead behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
Shulamite’s lips were a beautiful red. Her temples were the color of pomegranates, which was a mixture of dark and pale red (ruby red).
4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it— all shields of valiant warriors.
Her neck was long like a tower. It was surrounded with beautiful garments.
4:5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of the gazelle grazing among the lilies.
Her breasts were like a field covered with lilies where the twin-paired young gazelles fed.
4:6 Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, I will go up to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
“The mountain of myrrh” and “the hill of frankincense” refer to the female sexual organs.
4:7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!
Solomon is completely satisfied with the beauty of his bride.
4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.
Solomon is asking his bride to travel with him on a honeymoon to Lebanon in order to view some romantic sights.
4:9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
The Jewish woman is called “bride” after the marriage consummation makes them one flesh.
4:10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!
The Hebrew word for “love” is דּוֹד (dod), meaning sexual love.
4:11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride, honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Solomon enjoyed Shulamite’s kisses. Her lips were like new honey which flows from the honeycomb.
4:12 You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.
Shulamite’s female genitals are described as a garden with a fence around them, meaning that no one has access to them except for the rightful owner. The point is that Shulamite was a virgin. She was a sealed-up fountain which no one had touched. She was kept from the impurities of fornication.
4:13 Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard, 4:14 nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.
The shoots and fragrant plants of the royal garden were used for sexual arousal.
4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Shulamite’s sexual juices were now ready for intercourse.
4:16 Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit!
Shulamite’s sexual organs were fully ready for intercourse. She invites Solomon to enjoy her sexually. Solomon waited until she was ready for him, and now she signals that the time has come. Therefore, Solomon is invited to enjoy his private garden, for she indeed belongs to him.