Song of Solomon 1:14 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 1:14 Meaning My Beloved Is to Me a Cluster
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
What does Song of Solomon 1:14 mean?
The beloved is the indwelling spirit, and it is sweet to the soul like fragrant blossom clustered in a hidden garden. Engedi is a spring of living water in the wilderness, and the vineyard growing there is the fruitful life that rises where the inner well feeds the dry ground of the body.
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The beloved is the indwelling spirit, and it is sweet to the soul like fragrant blossom clustered in a hidden garden. Engedi is a spring of living water in the wilderness, and the vineyard growing there is the fruitful life that rises where the inner well feeds the dry ground of the body. The camphire, sweet and blooming, is the fragrance the awakened spirit gives off within a person, the delight the soul takes in the presence at its own center.
The union sung here is not between 2 people but between the seeking soul and the spirit dwelling inside it. Where the inner spring flows, the whole life blossoms and gives off its scent.
Cluster of camphire: the fragrant flowering of the awakened spirit felt within, sweet to the soul Vineyards: the fruitful life that grows where the inner spring waters the flesh Engedi: the hidden spring of living water in the wilderness of the body, the source that makes the dry ground bloom
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Live Song of Solomon 1:14 today
- Before you reach for the phone first thing tomorrow, stay still for two minutes and let something in you be glad for no reason. You are not producing anything, just drinking from a well that was already there.
- Tell one person today something you genuinely love, a piece of music, a view on your commute, the way your kid laughs. Saying the sweetness out loud makes the spring run a little stronger.
- In a dry stretch of your day, the dull meeting, the grocery line, the traffic, stop scanning for something better and let the quiet taste good instead. Dry ground is exactly where the water shows.
What am I looking for out there that is already running underneath me?
The same truth in other traditions
Chandogya Upanishad
Within the heart there is a small space, and in that space is everything you have been looking for outside. The seeker and the sought are housed together.
Sufism · Rumi
You wander looking for the garden while the fragrance is coming from inside your own coat. What you call longing is the scent of what you already carry.
Zen · Hakuin
You are like someone standing in water crying out from thirst. The spring is not somewhere else, which is exactly why it is so easy to miss.
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