Song of Solomon 7
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1How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands.1"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.
2Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.2"Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.
3Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle.3"Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.
4Your 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.4"Your neck is like a tower of ivory, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, Which faces toward Damascus.
5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.5"Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.
6How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights!6"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!
7Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.7"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
8I 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,8"I said, 'I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its fruit stalks.' Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9and your mouth like the best wine. She May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.9And your mouth like the best wine!" "It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.
10I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.10"I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.
11Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages.11"Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.
12Let 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.12"Let us rise early and go to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded And its blossoms have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.
13The 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.13"The mandrakes have given forth fragrance; And over our doors are all choice fruits, Both new and old, Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.
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