Song of Solomon 7

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How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!^(a)^(A)
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.

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Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist^(b) is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.

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Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.^(B)

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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.

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Your head crowns you^(c) like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive^(D) in your tresses.

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How beautiful you are and how pleasant,^(E)
my love, with such delights!

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

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I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”^(F)
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.^(G)

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Your mouth^(d) is like fine wine^(H)—

W flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth!^(e)

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I belong to my love,
and his desire^(I) is for me.^(J)

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Come, my love,
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.^(f)

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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.

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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.

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

Cross references:

A. Song of Solomon 7:1: Psalm 45:13

B. Song of Solomon 7:3: Song of Solomon 4:5

C. Song of Solomon 7:4: Song of Solomon 4:4

D. Song of Solomon 7:5: Song of Solomon 4:9

E. Song of Solomon 7:6: Song of Solomon 1:15-16

F. Song of Solomon 7:8: Proverbs 5:19

G. Song of Solomon 7:8: Song of Solomon 2:3

H. Song of Solomon 7:9: Song of Solomon 5:16

I. Song of Solomon 7:10: Genesis 3:16; Genesis 4:7

J. Song of Solomon 7:10: Song of Solomon 2:16; Song of Solomon 6:3; Song of Solomon 8:6

K. Song of Solomon 7:12: Song of Solomon 6:11

L. Song of Solomon 7:13: Genesis 30:14-16