Song of Solomon 7:1–8:14
1 “1How beautiful are your 2feet in sandals,
The curves of your hips are like 4jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.
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.
3 “Your atwo breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.
4 “Your aneck is like a tower of ivory,
Your eyes like the pools in bHeshbon
By the gate of Bath-rabbim;
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
Which faces toward Damascus.
5 “Your head 1crowns you like aCarmel,
And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;
The king is captivated by your tresses.
6 “How abeautiful and how delightful you are,
1My love, with all your charms!
7 “1Your stature is like a palm tree,
And your breasts are like its clusters.
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 1breath like 2aapples,
9 And your 1amouth like the best wine!”
“2It bgoes down smoothly for my beloved,
Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.
10 “aI am my beloved’s,
And his bdesire is for me.
11 “Come, my beloved, let us go out into the 1country,
Let us spend the night in the villages.
12 “Let us rise early and go to the vineyards;
Let us asee whether the vine has budded
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.
13 “The amandrakes have given forth fragrance;
And over our doors are all bchoice fruits,
Both new and old,
Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.
1 “Oh that you were like a brother to me
Who nursed at my mother’s breasts.
If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you;
No one would despise me, either.
2 “I would lead you and abring you
Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me;
I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.
3 “Let ahis left hand be under my head
And his right hand embrace me.”
4 “1aI want you to swear, O daughters of Jerusalem,
2Do not arouse or awaken my love
Until 3she pleases.”
5 “1aWho is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning on her beloved?”
“2Beneath the 3bapple tree I awakened you;
There your mother was in labor with you,
There she was in labor and gave you birth.
6 “Put me like a 1seal over your heart,
Like a aseal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
2bJealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
3The very flame of the Lord.
7 “Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor will rivers overflow it;
aIf a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,
It would be utterly despised.”
8 “1We have a little sister,
And she ahas no breasts;
What shall we do for our sister
On the day when she is spoken for?
We will build on her a battlement of silver;
But if she is a door,
We will barricade her with aplanks of cedar.”
10 “1I was a wall, and amy breasts were like towers;
Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.
11 “Solomon had a avineyard at Baal-hamon;
He bentrusted the vineyard to ccaretakers.
Each one was to bring a dthousand shekels of silver for its efruit.
12 “My very own vineyard is 1at my disposal;
The thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,
And two hundred are for those who take care of its fruit.”
13 “1O you who sit in the gardens,
My acompanions are listening for your voice—
bLet me hear it!”
And be alike a gazelle or a young 3stag
On the bmountains of spices.”