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Song of Solomon 7:11

Come, my lover, let's go out into the field; let's spend the night in the villages.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lodge;   Vine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Flowers;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Song of Songs;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vine;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Village;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Come, my love,let’s go to the field;let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.
Hebrew Names Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
King James Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
English Standard Version
Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;
New American Standard Bible
"Come, my beloved, let's go out to the country, Let's spend the night in the villages.
New Century Version
Come, my lover, let's go out into the country and spend the night in the fields.
Amplified Bible
"Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.
World English Bible
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Come, my welbeloued, let vs go foorth into the fielde: let vs remaine in the villages.
Legacy Standard Bible
Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields,Let us spend the night in the villages.
Berean Standard Bible
Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
Contemporary English Version
Let's stroll through the fields and sleep in the villages.
Complete Jewish Bible
I belong to my darling, and his desire is for me.
Darby Translation
—Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.
George Lamsa Translation
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the village.
Good News Translation
Come, darling, let's go out to the countryside and spend the night in the villages.
Lexham English Bible
Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
Literal Translation
Come, my Beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us stay in the villages.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O come on my loue, let vs go forth in to the felde, and take oure lodginge in the vyllages.
American Standard Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Bible in Basic English
Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
King James Version (1611)
Come, my beloued, let vs goe forth into the field: let vs lodge in the villages.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O come on my loue, we wyll go foorth into the fielde, and take our lodgyng in the villages.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
English Revised Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Come thou, my derlyng, go we out in to the feeld; dwelle we togidere in townes.
Update Bible Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
Webster's Bible Translation
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
New English Translation

The Beloved to Her Lover:

Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
New King James Version
Come, my beloved, Let us go forth to the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
New Living Translation
Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.
New Life Bible
Come, my love, let us go to the country. Let us spend the night in the villages.
New Revised Standard
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Come, my beloved, Let us go forth into the country, Let us stay the night in the villages:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in the villages.
Revised Standard Version
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
Young's Literal Translation
Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,
THE MESSAGE
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.

Contextual Overview

10 I belong to my lover, and he wants me. 11 Come, my lover, let's go out into the field; let's spend the night in the villages. 12 Let's get up early and go to the vineyards. Let's see if the vines are in bloom. Let's see if the blossoms have opened and if the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. 13 Smell the mandrakes and all the pleasant flowers by our door. I have saved many pleasant things for you, my lover, pleasant things, new and old.

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

Genesis 1:7
So God made the space and separated the water. Some of the water was above it, and some of the water was below it.
Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:8
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:23
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.
Genesis 7:24
The water continued to cover the earth for 150 days.
2 Kings 7:2
Then the officer who was close to the king answered the man of God. The officer said, "Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, this could not happen." Elisha said, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of that food."
2 Kings 7:19
But that officer had answered the man of God, "Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, this could not happen!" And Elisha had told the officer, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of that food."

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.


 
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