Song of Songs 7:5-13

5 Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

6 How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, love!

7 This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster.

8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose of apples;

9 and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.

10 I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me.

11 Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

12 Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.

13 The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept for thee.

Song of Songs 7:5-13 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.