Song of Solomon 7 DBY
Summary: The beloved offers a third wasf, this time moving upward from the woman's feet and thighs to her navel, waist, breasts, neck, eyes, nose, head, and flowing hair, comparing her stature to a palm tree he intends to climb, her breasts to its clusters, and her mouth to the best wine. The woman answers eagerly, declaring the wine should flow smoothly for her beloved, and inviting him to go out with her to the vineyards and villages to see whether the vines have budded, where she will give him her love. She mentions mandrakes giving forth fragrance and fruits both new and old that she has stored up for him at their doors.
1How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.
2Thy navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;
3Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;
4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;
5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets!
6How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!
7This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters.
8I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples,
9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine,...That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.
10I am my beloved's, And his desire is toward me.
11— Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.
12We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, [If] the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves.
13The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old: I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.
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