Song of Solomon 7
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1How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess! The curves of your thighs are like jewelry, the handiwork of a master.1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman.
2Your navel is a rounded bowl; it never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a mound of wheat surrounded by lilies.2Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies.
3Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.3Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.
4Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like pools in Heshbon by Bath-rabbim's gate. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.4Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.
5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple cloth--a king could be held captive in your tresses.5Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses.
6How beautiful you are and how pleasant, my love, with such delights!6Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
7Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.7You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
8I said, "I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes, and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.8I said, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like grape clusters, and the fragrance of your breath like apples.
9Your mouth is like fine wine--Woman flowing smoothly for my love, gliding past my lips and teeth!9May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine— Young Woman Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
10I am my love's, and his desire is for me.10I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own.
11Come, my love, let's go to the field; let's spend the night among the henna blossoms.11Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.
12Let'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. There I will give you my caresses.12Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.
13The mandrakes give off a fragrance, and at our doors is every delicacy, both new and old. I have treasured them up for you, my love.13There the mandrakes give off their fragrance, and the finest fruits are at our door, new delights as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover.
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