“ --- Which goes down smoothly for my beloved, And makes the lips of the sleepers to speak. I am my beloved's, And his desire is towards me.”

Taking up her beloved's theme his wife assures him that her lips will indeed provide the best wine for him, a wine which will go down his throat smoothly, causing his sleeping lips to say, ‘My love you are mine'. That is why, instinctively recognizing this, she is able to add, “I am my beloved's and his desires is towards me.' Note that she is longer thinking in terms of ‘my beloved is mine' (Song of Solomon 2:16; Song of Solomon 6:3). She is wholly taken up with him, and the fact that his desire is for her. Happy are we when our whole delight is in Christ and His love for us, and when it is God Who is in all our thoughts.

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