Awake, O North Wind; Come, O South

The woman speaks to the winds and then directly invites her beloved into “my garden” to eat its pleasant fruit. The private garden imagery of the previous verses becomes explicit invitation.

This verse is immediately answered by 5:1: “I am come into my garden.” That call-and-response is one of the clearest transitions in the book and should be visible in the study as an internal connection.

The language also preserves the woman’s agency. She is not merely compared to a garden by someone else; she takes up the metaphor herself, commands the winds, and invites the beloved.