Poetic Interpretative Series
Song of Solomon, Chapter 4, Verse 3
Oh, the Word that Flows
Song of Solomon 4:3
“Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.”
Interpretive Poem
Oh, the glorious words that flow!
From our Lord’s mouth – his lips! Of us! His Bride!
A scarlet thread that sutured wounded hearts,
What loveliness in Christ to abide.
Where the scarlet veil now reveals his lips,
His crimson blood and Gospel seeds to spread.
As a pomegranate – cut – prophetically foretold,
The beauty of his words – in us, his bride, his bed.
