7
Song of Songs 7
Expressions of Praise
1 #
Ps 45.13
How graceful are your feet in sandals,
O queenly maiden!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.
2Your navel is a rounded bowl;
may it never lack mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.
3 #
Song 4.5
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 #
Song 4.4
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,
overlooking Damascus.
5 #
Isa 35.2
Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 #
Song 1.15, 16 How fair and pleasant you are,
O loved one, delectable maiden!#7.6 Syr: Heb in delights
7You are stately#7.7 Heb This your stature is as a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 #
Song 2.5
I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its branches.”
O may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9and your kisses#7.9 Heb palate like the best wine
that goes down#7.9 Heb to my lover smoothly,
gliding over lips and teeth.#7.9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb lips of sleepers
10 #
Ps 45.11; Song 2.16; 6.3 I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.
11Come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the fields
and lodge in the villages;
12 #
Song 6.11
let us go out early to the vineyards;
let us 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 #
Gen 30.14; Song 2.3; 4.13, 16 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and over our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.