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SESSION 11

Song of Songs Chapter 4:12-16 & 5:1 (AMP)

Chapter 4

12 A garden enclosed and barred is my sister my (promised) bride- a

spring shut up; a fountain sealed.

13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates or a paradise with

precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants.

14 Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

15 You are a fountain (in a garden), a well of living water, and streams
flowing from Lebanon.

16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south [wind]! Blow softly upon

my garden [so that its spices may flow out in abundance for You in
whom my soul delights]. Let my beloved come into his garden And eat

its choicest fruits.

Or Paraphrase

16 (You have called me a garden, she said) Oh, I pray that the (cold)
north wind and the (soft) south wind may blow upon my garden, that

its spices may flow out (in abundance for you in whom my soul