Song of Solomon 7

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of an artist’s hands.

2Your navel is like a rounded goblet that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is like a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

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

4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and your flowing locks are like royal purple; a king is held captive by your tresses.

6How beautiful and how pleasant you are, my beloved, with all your delights!

7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

8I say I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

9and your mouth like the best wine. It travels down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who fall asleep.

10I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.

11Come, my lover, let us go out into the country, and lodge in the villages;

12let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give my love to you.

13The mandrakes give forth their fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, both new and old, which I have stored up for you, my lover.

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