Song of Solomon 4:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates - This seems to refer to the fecundity of the bride or Jewish queen; to the former it would be a prediction; to the latter, a statement of what had already taken place. The word פרדס pardes, which we translate an orchard, is the same which has given birth to our paradise, a garden of pleasure. The other expressions, in this and the following verse, seem to refer wholly to matters of a connubial nature.