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href="../songs/6.htm" title="Song of Solomon 6">◄</a> Song of Solomon 7 <a href="../songs/8.htm" title="Song of Solomon 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How beautiful are your feet in sandals,</span><br /><span class="indent">O noble daughter!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your rounded thighs are like jewels,</span><br /><span class="indent">the work of a master hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your navel is a rounded bowl</span><br /><span class="indent">that never lacks mixed wine.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your belly is a heap of wheat,</span><br /><span class="indent">encircled with lilies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your two breasts are like two fawns,</span><br /><span class="indent">twins of a gazelle.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your neck is like an ivory tower.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,</span><br /><span class="indent">by the gate of Bath-rabbim.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,</span><br /><span class="indent">which looks toward Damascus.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your head crowns you like Carmel,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your flowing locks are like purple;</span><br /><span class="indent">a king is held captive in the tresses.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How beautiful and pleasant you are,</span><br /><span class="indent">O loved one, with all your delights!<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or among delights">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your stature is like a palm tree,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your breasts are like its clusters.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I say I will climb the palm tree</span><br /><span class="indent">and lay hold of its fruit.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the scent of your breath like apples,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and your mouth<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew palate">b</a></sup></span> like the best wine.</span></p><subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">It goes down smoothly for my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">gliding over lips and teeth.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak, or gliding over the lips of those who sleep">c</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am my beloved’s,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his desire is for me.</span></p> <p class="heading">The Bride Gives Her Love</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Come, my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">let us go out into the fields</span><br /><span class="indent">and lodge in the villages;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or among the henna plants">d</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">let us go out early to the vineyards</span><br /><span class="indent">and see whether the vines have budded,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">whether the grape blossoms have opened</span><br /><span class="indent">and the pomegranates are in bloom.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">There I will give you my love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The mandrakes give forth fragrance,</span><br /><span class="indent">and beside our doors are all choice fruits,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">new as well as old,</span><br /><span class="indent">which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>among delights</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Hebrew <i>palate</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew <i>causing the lips of sleepers to speak</i>, or <i>gliding over the lips of those who sleep</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>among the henna plants</i><br 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