Song of Solomon Chapter 7
From The Open Bible Project
7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
- (a) He describes the comely beauty of the Church in every part, which is to be understood spiritually.
7:2 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
7:3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
7:4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
7:5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
- (c) He delights to come near you, and to be in your company.
7:6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
7:7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
7:8 I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved
7:9 Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
7:10 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
- (d) This the spouse speaks.
7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
7:12 Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
- (e) If the people that are called to Christ bring forth any fruit.
7:13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
