Song of Solomon, starting at chapter 7
{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.
{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.
{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.
{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.
{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.
{8:1} Oh that you were like my brother,
who nursed from the breasts of my mother!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you;
yes, and no one would despise me.
{8:2} I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house,
who would instruct me.
I would have you drink spiced wine,
of the juice of my pomegranate.
{8:3} His left hand would be under my head.
His right hand would embrace me.
{8:4} I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up, nor awaken love,
until it so desires.
Friends
{8:5} Who is this who comes up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I aroused you.
There your mother conceived you.
There she was in labor and bore you.
{8:6} Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
Jealousy is as cruel as [1>]Sheol[<1].
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a very flame of [2>]the LORD.[<2]
{8:7} Many waters can't quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
he would be utterly scorned.
Friends
{8:8} We have a little sister.
She has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
in the day when she is to be spoken for?
{8:9} If she is a wall,
we will build on her a turret of silver.
if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Beloved
{8:10} I am a wall, and my breasts like towers,
then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
{8:11} Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
He leased out the vineyard to keepers.
Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
{8:12} My own vineyard is before me.
The thousand are for you, Solomon;
two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Lover
{8:13} You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance,
let me hear your voice!
Beloved
{8:14} Come away, my beloved!
Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:6} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {8:6} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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