LEB SNG Chapter 7

Solomon’s Praise of His Dancing Maiden

• O royal princess![fn]
• The curves of your[fn] are like[fn]
  • the work of the hands of a craftsman.
  • 2 is[fn] that does not lack mixed[fn] wine!
• Your belly is a heap of wheat
  • encircled with lilies.
  • 3 are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
  • 4 is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim.
• Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
  • [fn]
  • 5 [fn][fn] the flowing locks of your head are like[fn]
    • a king is held captive in the tresses!
  • 6  O loved one in the delights!
  • 7 [fn] is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.
  • 8  I will lay hold of its fruit clusters.”
• Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine
  • and the scent of your breath like the apples.
  • 9 is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.[fn]

Mutual Possession Refrain

• 10 [fn] [fn]

Rendezvous in the Countryside

• 11 [fn] let us spend the night[fn] in the villages.
• 12 to go[fn] to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded,[fn]
• whether the grape blossom has opened,
  • and whether the pomegranates[fn]
• there I will give my love to you.
  • 13 off their fragrance, and[fn]
• both[fn] for you, O my beloved.