Song of Solomon 7:1-11

1 Your feet are beautiful in sandals, you daughter of a prince. Your round thighs are like jewels shaped by an artist.

2 Your navel is like a round drinking cup always filled with wine. Your stomach is like a pile of wheat surrounded with lilies.

3 Your breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. near the gate of Bath Rabbim. that looks down on Damascus.

5 Your head is like Mount Carmel, and your hair is like purple cloth; the king is captured in its folds.

6 You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of delights.

7 You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit.

8 I said, "I will climb up the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like bunches of grapes, the smell of your breath like apples,

9 and your mouth like the best wine. Let this wine go down sweetly for my lover; may it flow gently past the lips and teeth.

10 I belong to my lover, and he desires only me.

11 Come, my lover, let's go out into the country and spend the night in the fields.

Song of Solomon 7:1-11 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.