Song Of Songs 7
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Verse 1
[a]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
O prince’s daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
the work of an artist’s hands.
O prince’s daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
the work of an artist’s hands.
“How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.
O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.
Verse 2
Your navel is a rounded goblet
that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.
that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.
“Your navel is a round goblet
Which never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is like a heap of wheat
Surrounded with lilies.
Verse 3
Your breasts are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle.
like twin fawns of a gazelle.
“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
The twins of a gazelle.
Verse 4
Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon
by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon
by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,
Your eyes the [sparkling] pools of Heshbon
By the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.
Verse 5
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.
Your hair is like royal tapestry;
the king is held captive by its tresses.
Your hair is like royal tapestry;
the king is held captive by its tresses.
“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the flowing hair of your head like purple threads;
I, the king, am held captive by your [a]tresses.
Verse 6
How beautiful you are and how pleasing,
my love, with your delights!
my love, with your delights!
“How beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your delights!
Verse 7
Your stature is like that of the palm,
and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
and your breasts like clusters of fruit.
“Your stature is like that of a palm tree
And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].
Verse 8
I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,
I will take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,
“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;
I will grasp its branches.
Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,
And the fragrance of your breath like apples,
Verse 9
and your mouth like the best wine.
She
May the wine go straight to my beloved,
flowing gently over lips and teeth.[b]
‘And your kisses like the best wine!’”
(The Shulammite Bride)
“It goes down smoothly and sweetly for my beloved,
Gliding gently over his lips while he sleeps.
The Union of Love
Verse 10
I belong to my beloved,
and his desire is for me.
and his desire is for me.
“I am my beloved’s,
And his desire is for me.
Verse 11
“Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,
Let us spend the night in the villages.
Verse 12
Let us go early to the vineyards
to see if the vines have budded,
if their blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates are in bloom—
there I will give you my love.
to see if the vines have budded,
if their blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates are in bloom—
there I will give you my love.
“Let us go out early to the vineyards;
Let us see whether the vine has budded
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have flowered.
There I will give you my love.
Verse 13
The mandrakes send out their fragrance,
and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
that I have stored up for you, my beloved.
and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
that I have stored up for you, my beloved.
“The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
And over our doors are all [kinds of] choice fruits,
Both new and old,
Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.