Song of Solomon 7
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1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.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 that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with 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 two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.3Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.
4Your 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.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 Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the 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 and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!6Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.7You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
8I 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,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.
9and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over 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 beloved’s, and his desire is for me.10I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own.
11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;11Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.
12let 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.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 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.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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