Expressions of Praise
7 How graceful are your feet in sandals,
O queenly maiden!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.(A)
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
may it never lack mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.(B)
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
overlooking Damascus.(C)
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.(D)
6 How fair and pleasant you are,
O loved one, delectable maiden!(E)
7 You are stately as a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its branches.”
O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,(F)
9 and your kisses like the best wine
that goes down smoothly,
gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.(G)
11 Come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the fields
and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards;
let us see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.(H)
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and over our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.(I)
Footnotes
- 7.6
- 7.7
- 7.9
- 7.9
- 7.9
Cross references
- 7.1 : Ps 45.13
- 7.3 : Song 4.5
- 7.4 : Song 4.4
- 7.5 : Isa 35.2
- 7.6 : Song 1.15, 16
- 7.8 : Song 2.5
- 7.10 : Ps 45.11; Song 2.16; 6.3
- 7.12 : Song 6.11
- 7.13 : Gen 30.14; Song 2.3; 4.13, 16
