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We are a garden walled around Hymn 74

Isaac Watts printed it in 1707 in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, no. 74, under Song of Songs 4:12–15, 1.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs · no. 74

METRE

Long Metre 8.8.8.8 · 8 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Song of Songs 4:12–15, 1 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

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STANZA I

We are a garden walled around

We are a garden walled around,

Chosen and made peculiar ground;

A little spot enclosed by grace

Out of the world's wide wilderness.

Where Watts found it

Watts printed the hymn under Song of Songs 4:12–15, 1. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. 13Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, 14with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices. 15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon. SONG OF SONGS 4:12–15, 1 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ SONG OF SONGS 4

We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground; A little spot enclosed by grace Out of the world's wide wilderness. STANZA I

Its place in the book

Book I of the hymn book, “Collected from the Holy Scriptures”, holds these hymns in this order: 179 hymns. This is number 74. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 74 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN We are a garden walled around

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