LEB SNG Chapter 7

Solomon’s Praise of His Dancing Maiden

• 7 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
  • O royal princess![fn]
• The curves of your thighs[fn] are like jewels ,[fn]
  • the work of the hands of a craftsman.
• 2 Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl[fn]
  • that does not lack mixed[fn] wine!
• Your belly is a heap of wheat
  • encircled with lilies.
• 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
  • twins of a gazelle.
• 4 Your neck 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
  • looking out over Damascus .[fn]
• 5 Your head crowns you like Carmel ;[fn][fn]
  • the flowing locks of your head are like purple tapestry ;[fn]
    • a king is held captive in the tresses!
• 6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,
  • O loved one in the delights!
• 7 Your stature[fn] is like the palm tree,
  • and your breasts are like clusters.
• 8 I say, “I will climb up the palm tree;
  • 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 Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved,
  • smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.[fn]

Mutual Possession Refrain

• 10 I belong to my beloved ,[fn]
  • and he desires me ![fn]

Rendezvous in the Countryside

• 11 Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside ;[fn]
  • let us spend the night[fn] in the villages.
• 12 Let us rise early 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 are in bloom ;[fn]
• there I will give my love to you.
• 13 The mandrakes give off their fragrance,
  • and over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit ;[fn]
• both fresh and dried fruit I have stored up[fn] for you, O my beloved.