1
2
10
Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist(b) is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3
4 it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist(b) is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(C)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5
6
7 your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8
9 your breasts are clusters of fruit.
10
11
12
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Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.(K)
There I will give you my love.
13 let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.(K)
There I will give you my love.
The mandrakes(L) give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
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Footnotes:
a.
Song of Solomon 7:1: Lit daughter of a nobleman or prince
b.
Song of Solomon 7:2: Or belly
c.
Song of Solomon 7:5: Lit head upon you is
d.
Song of Solomon 7:9: Lit palate
e.
Song of Solomon 7:9: LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers
f.
Song of Solomon 7:11: Or the villages