Song of Solomon 7:1-10

1 What a magnificent young woman you are! How beautiful are your feet in sandals. The curve of your thighs is like the work of an artist.
2 A bowl is there, that never runs out of spiced wine. A sheaf of wheat is there, surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like twin deer, like two gazelles.
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in the city of Heshbon, near the gate of that great city. Your nose is as lovely as the tower of Lebanon that stands guard at Damascus.
5 Your head is held high like Mount Carmel. Your braided hair shines like the finest satin; its beauty could hold a king captive.
6 How pretty you are, how beautiful; how complete the delights of your love.
7 You are as graceful as a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of dates.
8 I will climb the palm tree and pick its fruit. To me your breasts are like bunches of grapes, your breath like the fragrance of apples,
9 and your mouth like the finest wine. Then let the wine flow straight to my lover, flowing over his lips and teeth.
10 I belong to my lover, and he desires me.

Song of Solomon 7:1-10 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 2

  • [a]. beauty; [Hebrew unclear.]
  • [b]. [Some ancient translations] lips and teeth; [Hebrew] lips of those who sleep.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.