Song of Solomon 7:6-12

6 ¹How beautiful and ²pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!^[a]

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

8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like ³clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

9 and your ⁴mouth^[b] like the best wine.It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.^[c]

10 ⁵I am my beloved's, ⁶and his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

11 ⁷Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;^[d]

12 let us go out early to the vineyards ⁸and see whether the vines have budded, whether ⁹the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

Song of Solomon 7:6-12 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.

Cross References

• 1. [Song of Songs 1:15, 16]
• 2. 2 Samuel 1:23, 26
• 3. [Song of Songs 1:14; Micah 7:1]
• 4. [Song of Songs 5:16]
• 5. Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 6:3
• 6. [Psalms 45:11]
• 7. [Song of Songs 2:10; Song of Songs 4:8]
• 8. Song of Songs 6:11
• 9. Song of Songs 2:13, 15

Footnotes

• [a]. Or among delights
• [b]. Hebrew palate
• [c]. Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak
• [d]. Or among the henna plants