The bride in Solomon’s Song of Songs was “the most beautiful woman” Song 1:9 physically and spiritually in some sense. Post on her matchless beauty.
Watch the Youtube livestream here. Her glorious hair.
Her overall beauty is praised 8x. Song 1:7, 15, 4:1 and 4:7, 6:4, 6:8-9, 6:10, 7:6.
Other parts of her body are praised as well.
The 3rd most popular part that her husband praised was her hair.
In two places he says her hair is beautiful, gloriously, thick, shiny, wavy, long. More than likely black hair. In another place he says her hair is captivating, majestic, royal and fit for a king. 7:5
Song 4:1, 6:5 say the same thing having the same comparison.
“Your hair is like a flock of goats that have descended from Mount Gilead.” 2x
Him saying this assumes she is familiar with Mount Gilead. And familiar with what a flock of goats descending form Mount Gilead looked like.
What can we notice in this picture that may help us to see why her husband complimented her hair.
Wavy, flowing, long and thick.
“Like a flock of goats coming down from Mount Gilead.” 4:1
If there was something similar about a flock of goats descending from this mount and a womans hair that made her beautiful, then what would it be? Wavy, long and thick.
Wavy, because I highly doubt goats take a straight line down a mount. Long, because the Mount doesn’t look small to me. Thick, due to it being a “flock” he is comparing it to. A flock being wide, dense or thick. Not just one or two goats but a flock of them.
Beautiful and lovely.
From the text we know that since he described her as beautiful and altogether lovely that her hair, her crowning beauty did its part just perfectly so that she was altogether lovely. Song 4:1-7 Also, fair. You could say that her hair was fair rather than use the word beautiful.
Oh, how beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil are doves.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from the hills of Gilead.”
Shiny.
We see this by looking at pictures of goats and pictures of beautiful black hair on a woman and see the similarity. Both are shiny. The shininess (is that a word?) helps to contribute to her beauty as a whole, thus making her the most beautiful woman. It is as if her hair loved her. Or her hair was in perfect consent and agreement with the rest of her head and body. The perfect consent and agreement of physical parts is but a shadow or picture of love.
Her hair was her glory!
1 Corinthians 11:15
“but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her” Glory here is defined as a “shining forth” or “beautifying” or meaning weight. Her hair is what gives her beauty weight so to speak.
Majestic, royal and fit for a king.
The 3rd compliment on her hair we find in Song 7:5
“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.
Your hair is like royal tapestry;
the king is held captive by its tresses.“
Her is head which includes her hair, is majestic “like Mount Carmel.” Well, majestic is what comes to my mind when I see Mount Carmel.
A woman’s hair is her glory. Or rather what beautifies her. Or makes her shine forth.
Application
Solomon complimented, praised and delighted in the beautiful hair of his wife.
Prov. 31 “A noble wife is praised by her husband”
Solomon complimenting his wife is a good example for husbands. Husbands should find something praiseworthy about their spouse and praise them.
Not only praise them but to do it often. Solomon speak about 12 time and 10 of them have praises of her internal or external beauty.
The parts of their life that we get are the ones that were crucial to the plot or them becoming closer. The two become one.
His actions and words help them get closer.
What could I do to get closer to my spouse?
Would genuinely complimenting her beauties help draw her closer to you?
He draws her closer by his love. He draws her closer to himself.
Praising her is an act of love. He loves her. He is captivated by her inner and outer beauty and lets her know what he thinks about how she looks.
Husband ought to praise their wife. Wives ought to and can take some to a lot of effort in looking beautiful on the outside! Paint the barn if it needs it. But don’t go overboard. Let your hair shine. Display it for you husband. He delights in your beauties.
Husbands ought to have a healthy dose of praising the internal and external beauties of his wife! So that those expressions of love will draw her closer, thus tightening the bond.
brides/Brides ought to look beautiful both internally and externally for their husbands.
With Jesus!
If outer beauty is worthy of praise. God’s beautiful creation, then wouldn’t a husband praising the inner beauty of his wife be all the more praiseworthy. Prov. 31:28-30
If Solomon who was like Jesus Christ praised and delighted in the beauty of his bride, then how much more so would Jesus Christ praise and delight in the moral beauty and excellency of His Bride, the Church and all believers.
If you desire to make Jesus happy then get rid of sin in your life so that your moral beauty, holiness or love to God shines brighter and hotter.
(Just a side note, isn’t it wonderful that Jesus see’s us as beautiful as He is due to our union and communion with Him, we are infinitely beautiful to Jesus!)
“Well done, good and faithful servant.” Matt. 25.
Does God praise Israel?
Don’t forget that all external beauty is but a reflection of moral beauty in the soul.
Any beauty of God both seen and delighted in will glorify God, so praising someone for an external or internal beauty will honor the God who made them that way.
The sight of such beauties ought to provoke praise to God as well!
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