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 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.
² Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
³ Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
⁴ Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
which looks toward Damascus.
⁵ Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.

⁶ How beautiful and 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 clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
⁹ and your mouth^[b] like the best wine.

It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.^[c]

¹⁰ I am my beloved's,
and his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

¹¹ 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
and see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
¹³ The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

Footnotes:

1. Song of Solomon 7:6 Or among delights
2. Song of Solomon 7:9 Hebrew palate
3. Song of Solomon 7:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak
4. Song of Solomon 7:11 Or among the henna plants

Cross references:

1. Song of Solomon 7:1 : Ps. 45:13
2. Song of Solomon 7:1 : Prov. 25:12
3. Song of Solomon 7:1 : [Prov. 8:30]
4. Song of Solomon 7:2 : ch. 2:1
5. Song of Solomon 7:3 : ch. 4:5
6. Song of Solomon 7:4 : [ch. 4:4]
7. Song of Solomon 7:4 : [ch. 5:12]
8. Song of Solomon 7:4 : Num. 21:26
9. Song of Solomon 7:4 : ch. 4:8; See 1 Kgs. 4:33
10. Song of Solomon 7:4 : 1 Kgs. 11:24; 2 Kgs. 5:12
11. Song of Solomon 7:5 : See Josh. 19:26
12. Song of Solomon 7:5 : [ch. 4:1]
13. Song of Solomon 7:6 : [ch. 1:15, 16]
14. Song of Solomon 7:6 : 2 Sam. 1:23, 26
15. Song of Solomon 7:8 : [ch. 1:14; Mic. 7:1]
16. Song of Solomon 7:9 : [ch. 5:16]
17. Song of Solomon 7:10 : ch. 2:16; 6:3
18. Song of Solomon 7:10 : [Ps. 45:11]
19. Song of Solomon 7:11 : [ch. 2:10; 4:8]
20. Song of Solomon 7:12 : ch. 6:11
21. Song of Solomon 7:12 : ch. 2:13, 15
22. Song of Solomon 7:13 : Gen. 30:14; ch. 4:13
23. Song of Solomon 7:13 : [Matt. 13:52]