the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Song of Solomon 7:11
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Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my lover, let's go out into the country and spend the night in the fields.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
"Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;
Come thou, my derlyng, go we out in to the feeld; dwelle we togidere in townes.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
Let's stroll through the fields and sleep in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
I belong to my darling, and his desire is for me.
—Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my lover, let's go out into the field; let's spend the night in the villages.
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Come, my beloued, let vs goe forth into the field: let vs lodge in the villages.
Come, my love, let us go to the country. Let us spend the night in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
Come, my welbeloued, let vs go foorth into the fielde: let vs remaine in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the village.
Come, darling, let's go out to the countryside and spend the night in the villages.
Come, my beloved, Let us go forth into the country, Let us stay the night in the villages:
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
O come on my loue, we wyll go foorth into the fielde, and take our lodgyng in the villages.
Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my love,let’s go to the field;let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
Come, my Beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us stay in the villages.
Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,
O come on my loue, let vs go forth in to the felde, and take oure lodginge in the vyllages.
class="poetry"> Shapely and graceful your sandaled feet, and queenly your movement— Your limbs are lithe and elegant, the work of a master artist. Your body is a chalice, wine-filled. Your skin is silken and tawny like a field of wheat touched by the breeze. Your breasts are like fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is carved ivory, curved and slender. Your eyes are wells of light, deep with mystery. Quintessentially feminine! Your profile turns all heads, commanding attention. The feelings I get when I see the high mountain ranges —stirrings of desire, longings for the heights— Remind me of you, and I'm spoiled for anyone else! Your beauty, within and without, is absolute, dear lover, close companion. You are tall and supple, like the palm tree, and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates. I say, "I'm going to climb that palm tree! I'm going to caress its fruit!" Oh yes! Your breasts will be clusters of sweet fruit to me, Your breath clean and cool like fresh mint, your tongue and lips like the best wine.
The Woman
Yes, and yours are, too—my love's kisses flow from his lips to mine. I am my lover's. I'm all he wants. I'm all the world to him! Come, dear lover— let's tramp through the countryside. Let's sleep at some wayside inn, then rise early and listen to bird-song. Let's look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, Fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers. And there I'll give myself to you, my love to your love! Love-apples drench us with fragrance, fertility surrounds, suffuses us, Fruits fresh and preserved that I've kept and saved just for you, my love."Come, my beloved, let's go out to the country, Let's spend the night in the villages.
"Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.
Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields,Let us spend the night in the villages.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
let us go: Song of Solomon 1:4, Song of Solomon 2:10-13, Song of Solomon 4:8
Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 2:13 - fig tree Song of Solomon 3:11 - Go Song of Solomon 8:13 - dwellest
Cross-References
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, "Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" And he said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, "Now look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Come, my beloved,.... The word come is often used by Christ, and here by the church, in imitation of him; see Song of Solomon 2:10. This call is the call of the church upon Christ, to make good his promise, Song of Solomon 7:8; and is an earnest desire after the presence of Christ, and the manifestations of his love; which desire is increased the more it is enjoyed; and it shows the sense she had of her own insufficiency for the work she was going about: she knew that visiting the several congregations of the saints would be to little purpose, unless Christ was with her, and therefore she urges him to it; not that he was backward and unwilling to go with her, but he chooses to seem so, to make his people the more earnest for his presence, and to prize it the more when they have it; and it is pleasing to him to hear them ask for it. The endearing character, "my beloved", is used by the church, not only to express her affection for Christ, and faith of interest in him, but as an argument to engage him to go along with her. Her requests follow;
let us go forth into the field; from the city, where she had been in quest of Christ, and had now found him, Song of Solomon 5:7; into the country, for recreation and pleasure: the allusion may be to such who keep their country houses, to which they retire from the city, and take their walks in the fields, to see how the fruits grow, and enjoy the country air. The church is for going abroad into the fields; but then she would have Christ with her; walking in the fields yields no pleasure unless Christ is there; there is no recreation without him: the phrase expresses her desire of his presence everywhere, at home and abroad, in the city and the fields; and of her being with him alone, that she might tell him all her mind, and impart her love to him, which she could better do alone than in company it may also signify her desire to have the Gospel spread in the world, in the barren parts of it, which looked like uncultivated fields, the Gentile world; and so, in one of the Jewish Midrashes c, these "fields", and the "villages" in the next clause, are interpreted of the nations of the world;
let us lodge in the villages; which, though places of mean entertainment for food and lodging, yet, Christ being with her, were more eligible to her than the greatest affluence of good things without him; and, being places of retirement from the noise and hurry of the city, she chose them, that she might be free of the cares of life, and enjoy communion with Christ, which she would have continued; and therefore was desirous of "lodging", at least all night, as in Song of Solomon 1:13. Some d render the words, "by", "in", or "among [the] Cyprus trees"; see Song of Solomon 1:14; by which may be meant the saints, comparable to such trees for their excellency, fragrancy, and fruitfulness; and an invitation to lodge by or with these could not be unwelcome to Christ, they being the excellent in the earth, in whom is all his delight.
c Shir Hashirim Rabba in loc. d Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Brightman, Michaelis.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. Let us go forth into the field — It has been conjectured that the bridegroom arose early every morning, and left the bride's apartment, and withdrew to the country; often leaving her asleep, and commanding her companions not to disturb her till she should awake of herself. Here the bride wishes to accompany her spouse to the country, and spend a night at his country house.
