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The Song of Solomon

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- Chapter 7 -

1
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
3
Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

Longing

4
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
5
Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
6
How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

Your love makes me happy

7
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
8
I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.
9
Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
10
I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.
11
Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.

I want to give you my love

12
Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
13
The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
1
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.(a)
3
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Longing

4
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath–rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.(b) (c)
6
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Your love makes me happy

7
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.(d) (e)
10
I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
11
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

I want to give you my love

12
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.(f)
13
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Footnotes

(a)7:2 liquor: Heb. mixture
(b)7:5 Carmel: or, crimson
(c)7:5 held: Heb. bound
(d)7:9 sweetly: Heb. straightly
(e)7:9 of those…: or, of the ancient
(f)7:12 appear: Heb. open
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