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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/songs/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>How beautiful are your sandaled feet,</p><p class="line2">O queenly maiden.</p><p class="line1">Your rounded thighs are like jewels,</p><p class="line2">the work of a skilled craftsman.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Your navel is perfectly formed</p><p class="line2">like a goblet filled with mixed wine.</p><p class="line1">Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat</p><p class="line2">bordered with lilies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your breasts are like two fawns,</p><p class="line2">twin fawns of a gazelle.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower.</p><p class="line1">Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon</p><p class="line2">by the gate of Bath-rabbim.</p><p class="line1">Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon</p><p class="line2">overlooking Damascus.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel,</p><p class="line2">and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty.</p><p class="line2">The king is held captive by its tresses.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Oh, how beautiful you are!</p><p class="line2">How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You are slender like a palm tree,</p><p class="line2">and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I said, “I will climb the palm tree</p><p class="line2">and take hold of its fruit.”</p><p class="line1">May your breasts be like grape clusters,</p><p class="line2">and the fragrance of your breath like apples.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine—</p><p class="b"/><p class="sp">Young Woman</p><p class="line1">Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover,</p><p class="line2">flowing gently over lips and teeth.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am my lover’s,</p><p class="line2">and he claims me as his own.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Come, my love, let us go out to the fields</p><p class="line2">and spend the night among the wildflowers.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let us get up early and go to the vineyards</p><p class="line2">to see if the grapevines have budded,</p><p class="line1">if the blossoms have opened,</p><p class="line2">and if the pomegranates have bloomed.</p><p class="line2">There I will give you my love.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>There the mandrakes give off their fragrance,</p><p class="line2">and the finest fruits are at our door,</p><p class="line1">new delights as well as old,</p><p class="line2">which I have saved for you, my lover.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:1 </span><span class="ft">Verses 7:1-13 are numbered 7:2-14 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">over lips of sleepers.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in the 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