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Song of Solomon 7-8
Chapter 7
1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist[b] is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.(b)
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(c)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you[c] like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive(d) in your tresses.
6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,(e)
my love, with such delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit."(f)
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.(g)
9 Your mouth[d] is like fine wine(h)—
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flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth![e]
10 I belong to my love,
and his desire(i) is for me.(j)
11 Come, my love,
let's go to the field;
let's spend the night among the henna blossoms.[f]
12 Let's go early to the vineyards;
let's see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.(k)
There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(l) give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.
Chapter 8
1 If only I could treat you like my brother,[a]
one who nursed at my mother's breasts,
I would find you in public and kiss you,
and no one would scorn me.
2 I would lead you, I would take you,
to the house of my mother(a) who taught me.[b]
I would give you spiced wine to drink
from my pomegranate juice.
3 His left hand is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.(b)
4 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.(c)
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Who is this(d) coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on the one she loves?
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I awakened you under the apricot tree.(e)
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.(f)
For love is as strong as death;(g)
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love's flames are fiery flames(h)—
the fiercest of all.[c]
7 Mighty waters cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth[d] for love,(i)
it would be utterly scorned.
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Our sister is young;
she has no breasts.(j)
What will we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build a silver parapet on it.
If she is a door,
we will enclose it with cedar planks.[e](k)
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I am[f] a wall
and my breasts like towers.
So in his eyes I have become
like one who finds peace.[g]
11 Solomon owned a vineyard in Baal-hamon.(l)
He leased the vineyard to tenants.(m)
Each was to bring for his fruit
1,000 pieces of silver.(n)
12 I have my own vineyard.[h](o)
The 1,000 are for you, Solomon,
but 200 for those who guard its fruits.
13
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You[i] who dwell in the gardens—
companions(p) are listening for your voice—
let me hear you!(q)
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Hurry to me, my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.(r)
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