Admiration by the Groom
7 “How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
(A)Prince’s daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.
2 Your navel is like a round goblet
That never lacks mixed wine;
Your belly is like a heap of wheat,
Surrounded with lilies.
3 Your (B)two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4 Your (C)neck is like a tower of ivory,
Your eyes like the pools in (D)Heshbon
By the gate of Bath-rabbim;
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
Which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like (E)Carmel,
And the flowing hair of your head is like purple threads;
The king is captivated by your tresses.
6 How (F)beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
And your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,
I will grasp its fruit stalks.’
Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
And the fragrance of your breath like (G)apples,
9 And your (H)mouth like the best wine!”
The Bride
“It (I)goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Flowing gently through the lips of those who are asleep.
The Union of Love
10 “(J)I am my beloved’s,
And his (K)desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let’s go out to the country,
Let’s spend the night in the villages.
12 Let’s rise early and go to the vineyards;
Let’s (L)see whether the vine has grown
And its buds have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.
13 The (M)mandrakes have given forth fragrance;
And over our doors are all (N)delicious fruits,
New as well as old,
Which I have saved for you, my beloved.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 7:1
- Song of Solomon 7:1
- Song of Solomon 7:2
- Song of Solomon 7:5
- Song of Solomon 7:6
- Song of Solomon 7:7
- Song of Solomon 7:8
- Song of Solomon 7:9
- Song of Solomon 7:11
Cross references
- Song of Solomon 7:1 : Ps 45:13
- Song of Solomon 7:3 : Song 4:5
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : Song 4:4
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : Num 21:26
- Song of Solomon 7:5 : Is 35:2
- Song of Solomon 7:6 : Song 1:15, 16; 4:10
- Song of Solomon 7:8 : Song 2:5
- Song of Solomon 7:9 : Song 5:16
- Song of Solomon 7:9 : Prov 23:31
- Song of Solomon 7:10 : Song 2:16; 6:3
- Song of Solomon 7:10 : Ps 45:11; Gal 2:20
- Song of Solomon 7:12 : Song 6:11
- Song of Solomon 7:13 : Gen 30:14
- Song of Solomon 7:13 : Song 2:3; 4:13, 16; Matt 13:52
