The lover describes the beloved as a garden full of pomegranate trees and all manner of precious fruits, with henna and spikenard, establishing her interior as abundant, fertile, and filled with valuable produce. The specific listing of fruits—pomegranates, henna, spikenard—establishes botanical luxury and suggests that the beloved's interior contains multiple sources of pleasure and nourishment. The transition from the locked garden of the previous verse to this abundant garden establishes that though the beloved controls access, once granted entry, the lover finds infinite richness and pleasure. This verse theologically suggests that the beloved's erotic interior is abundantly generous, and that though guarded, it offers complete fulfillment to the lover who is granted entry.

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