Song of Songs 7:1-9

Man

1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!^[a] 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.^[c]

4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,^[d] 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^[e] like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple cloth- a king could be held captive in your tresses.

6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant, [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^[h] is like fine wine- flowing smoothly for my love gliding past my lips and teeth!^[i]

Song of Songs 7:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 7

In this chapter Christ gives a fresh commendation of the beauty of his church, in a different order and method than before; beginning with her "feet", and so rising upwards to the "hair" of her head, and the roof of her mouth, So 7:1-9; And then the church asserts her interest in him, and his desire towards her, So 7:10; and invites him to go with her into the fields, villages, and vineyards, and offers various reasons, by which she urges him to comply with her invitation, So 7:11-13.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit daughter of a nobleman or prince
• [b]. Or belly
• [c]. Sg 4:5
• [d]. Sg 4:4
• [e]. Lit head upon you is
• [f]. Pr 5:19
• [g]. Sg 2:3
• [h]. Lit palate
• [i]. LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers