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Song of Solomon 7

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¹ [17]How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman.

² Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies.

³ Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.

⁴ Your 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.

⁵ Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses.

⁶ Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!

⁷ You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.

⁸ I 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.

⁹ May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine— Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.[18]

¹⁰ I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own.

¹¹ Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.[19]

¹² Let 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.

¹³ There 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.

#	NLT
1	[17]How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman.
2	Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies.
3	Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle.
4	Your 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.
5	Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses.
6	Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
7	You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
8	I 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.
9	May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine— Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.[18]
10	I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own.
11	Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.[19]
12	Let 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.
13	There 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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^{Song of Solomon 7:1 [#*]} an appointed…: or, a warfare

^{Song of Solomon 7:2 [#†} earnestly…: Heb. gapeth after

^{Song of Solomon 7:4 [#‡} the night…: Heb. the evening be measured?

^{Song of Solomon 7:7 [#**]} see: to see, that is, to enjoy

^{Song of Solomon 7:7 [#§]} shall…: Heb. shall not return

^{Song of Solomon 7:8 [#†} I am…: that is, I can live no longer

^{Song of Solomon 7:15 [#‡} life: Heb. bones

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