Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageMy sister, my bride, is a locked garden — a sealed spring, a fountain kept for one alone.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GA locked garden is my sister, my bride — a locked wellspring, a sealed fountain.
KJV
King James VersionA garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleMy sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
Footnotes
גַּל נָעוּל (gal na'ul) — the word גַּל appears only here in this context; the LXX renders it as πηγή (spring), treating all three images as water metaphors. Some manuscripts read גַּן (garden) again, creating a doubled enclosure image before the spring metaphors. The three images together — locked garden, sealed wellspring, stoppered fountain — evoke consecrated purity and exclusive intimacy: a paradise kept inviolate for one, echoing the guarded Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:24). F.O.G renders the spring/wellspring reading; F.O.G Message foregrounds the theme of exclusive reserve.
