7 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O (A)noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like (B)jewels,
the work of (C)a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with (D)lilies.
3 (E)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 Your (F)neck is like an ivory tower.
Your (G)eyes are pools in (H)Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of (I)Lebanon,
which looks toward (J)Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like (K)Carmel,
and your (L)flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 (M)How beautiful and (N)pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights![a]
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like (O)clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your (P)mouth[b] like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.[c]
10 (Q)I am my beloved's,
(R)and his desire is for me.
The Bride Gives Her Love
11 (S)Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;[d]
12 let us go out early to the vineyards
(T)and see whether the vines have budded,
whether (U)the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 (V)The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
(W)new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 7:6 Or among delights
- Song of Solomon 7:9 Hebrew palate
- Song of Solomon 7:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak, or gliding over the lips of those who sleep
- Song of Solomon 7:11 Or among the henna plants
Cross references
- Song of Solomon 7:1 : Ps. 45:13
- Song of Solomon 7:1 : Prov. 25:12
- Song of Solomon 7:1 : [Prov. 8:30]
- Song of Solomon 7:2 : ch. 2:1
- Song of Solomon 7:3 : ch. 4:5
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : [ch. 4:4]
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : [ch. 5:12]
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : Num. 21:26
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : ch. 4:8; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
- Song of Solomon 7:4 : 1 Kgs. 11:24; 2 Kgs. 5:12
- Song of Solomon 7:5 : See Josh. 19:26
- Song of Solomon 7:5 : [ch. 4:1]
- Song of Solomon 7:6 : [ch. 1:15, 16]
- Song of Solomon 7:6 : 2 Sam. 1:23, 26
- Song of Solomon 7:8 : [ch. 1:14; Mic. 7:1]
- Song of Solomon 7:9 : [ch. 5:16]
- Song of Solomon 7:10 : ch. 2:16; 6:3
- Song of Solomon 7:10 : [Ps. 45:11]
- Song of Solomon 7:11 : [ch. 2:10; 4:8]
- Song of Solomon 7:12 : ch. 6:11
- Song of Solomon 7:12 : ch. 2:13, 15
- Song of Solomon 7:13 : Gen. 30:14; ch. 4:13
- Song of Solomon 7:13 : [Matt. 13:52]