Song of Solomon 7

Modern

Literal

Admiration by the Bridegroom

¹How beautiful are your sandaled feet,

O daughter of the prince!

The curves of your thighs are like jewels,

the handiwork of a master.

¹How beautiful are your feet in the sandals, O daughter of a noble! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of an artisan.

²Your navel is a rounded goblet;

it never lacks blended wine.

Your waist is a mound of wheat

encircled by the lilies.

²Your 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.

³Your breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle.

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

⁴Your neck is like a tower

made of ivory;

your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon

by the gate of Bath-rabbim;

your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,

facing toward Damascus.

⁴Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, looking to the face of Damascus.

⁵Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,

the hair of your head like purple threads;

the king is captured in your tresses.

⁵Your head is upon you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple—a king is bound in the tresses!

⁶How fair and pleasant you are,

O love, with your delights!

⁶How beautiful and how pleasant, O my love, in your delights!

⁷Your stature is like a palm tree;

your breasts are clusters of fruit.

⁷This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of fruit.

⁸I said, “I will climb the palm tree;

I will take hold of its fruit.”

May your breasts be like clusters of the vine,

the fragrance of your breath like apples,

⁸I said, “I will go up on the palm tree, I will grab hold of its boughs.” And may your breasts be now like the clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of your breath like the apples,

The Bride

⁹and your mouth^a like the finest wine.

May it flow smoothly to my beloved,

gliding gently over lips and teeth.^b

⁹and your mouth like wine of the best. It is flowing to my beloved smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

¹⁰I belong to my beloved,

and his desire is for me.

¹⁰I am unto my beloved, and for me is his desire.

¹¹Come, my beloved,

let us go to the countryside;

let us spend the night among the wildflowers.^a

¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.

¹²Let us go early to the vineyards

to see if the vine has budded,

if the blossom has opened,

if the pomegranates are in bloom—

there I will give you my love.

¹²Let us go out early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine has sprouted, if the blossoms have opened and the pomegranates have budded; there I will give my love to you.

¹³The mandrakes send forth a fragrance,

and at our door is every delicacy,

new as well as old,

that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

¹³The mandrakes give off a scent, and at our door is every delicacy, new and old, my beloved, which I have stored up for you.