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]

She

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. 7:6 [ch. 1:15, 16]
• 2. 7:6 2 Sam. 1:23, 26
• 3. 7:8 [ch. 1:14; Mic. 7:1]
• 4. 7:9 [ch. 5:16]
• 5. 7:10 ch. 2:16; 6:3
• 6. 7:10 [Ps. 45:11]
• 7. 7:11 [ch. 2:10; 4:8]
• 8. 7:12 ch. 6:11
• 9. 7:12 ch. 2:13, 15

Footnotes

• [a] 7:6 Or 'among delights'
• [b] 7:9 Hebrew 'palate'
• [c] 7:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew 'causing the lips of sleepers to speak'
• [d] 7:11 Or 'among the henna plants'