Translations
Modern
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
Traditional
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Literal
Your navel is a bowl of roundness—it is not lacking in mixed wine. Your belly is a mound of wheat, fenced around with the lilies.
Latin
Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, numquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.
Original
Hebrew
English
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
Notes
Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies: The man is describing either the woman's smoothly rounded belly or her pubic area.
The man praises the woman's dancing feet and then admires her body up to her flowing hair (Song of Solomon 7:1–5).
This daighter of the prince might not be from a royal family, but the man sees her as equal to royalty.
The young women of Jerusalem talk with the man, leading him to describe the woman's beauty and express his wish to hold her (see study note on Song of Solomon 4:1–5:1).
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