'Breasts' in the Bible

by the God of your father who helps you,and by the Almighty who blesses youwith blessings of the heavens above,blessings of the deep that lies below,and blessings of the breasts and the womb.

and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,

but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

Why did the knees receive me,and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—let her breasts always satisfy you;be lost in her love forever.

My love is a sachet of myrrh to me,spending the night between my breasts.

Your breasts are like two fawns,twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.

Your breasts are like two fawns,twins of a gazelle.

Your stature is like a palm tree;your breasts are clusters of fruit.

I said, “I will climb the palm treeand take hold of its fruit.”May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.

If only I could treat you like my brother,one who nursed at my mother’s breasts,I would find you in public and kiss you,and no one would scorn me.

B Our sister is young;she has no breasts.What will we do for our sisteron the day she is spoken for?

W I am a walland my breasts like towers.So in his eyes I have becomelike one who finds peace.

Beat your breasts in mourningfor the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,

so that you may nurse and be satisfiedfrom her comforting breastand drink deeply and delight yourselvesfrom her glorious breasts.

ג GimelEven jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but my dear people have become cruellike ostriches in the wilderness.

I made you thrive like plants of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.

who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed.

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.Let her remove the promiscuous look from her faceand her adultery from between her breasts.

Give them, Lord—What should You give?Give them a womb that miscarriesand breasts that are dry!

Beauty is stripped,she is carried away;her ladies-in-waiting moanlike the sound of doves,and beat their breasts.

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’