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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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">The Man</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.1" class="v22_7_1">1</span>What a magnificent young woman you are!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_1">How beautiful are your feet in sandals.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_1">The curve of your thighs</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_1">is like the work of an artist.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.2" class="v22_7_2">2</span>A bowl is there,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_2">that never runs out of spiced wine.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_2">A sheaf of wheat is there,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_2">surrounded by lilies.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.3" class="v22_7_3">3</span>Your breasts are like twin deer,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_3">like two gazelles.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.4" class="v22_7_4">4</span>Your neck is like a tower of ivory.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_4">Your eyes are like the pools in the city of Heshbon,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_4">near the gate of that great city.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_4">Your nose is as lovely as the tower of Lebanon</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_4">that stands guard at Damascus.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.5" class="v22_7_5">5</span>Your head is held high like Mount Carmel.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_5">Your braided hair shines like the finest satin;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_5">its beauty<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.7.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> could hold a king captive.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.6" class="v22_7_6">6</span>How pretty you are, how beautiful;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_6">how complete the delights of your love.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.7" class="v22_7_7">7</span>You are as graceful as a palm tree,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_7">and your breasts are clusters of dates.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.8" class="v22_7_8">8</span>I will climb the palm tree</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_8">and pick its fruit.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_8">To me your breasts are like bunches of grapes,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_8">your breath like the fragrance of apples,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.9" class="v22_7_9">9</span>and your mouth like the finest wine.</span></p><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_9">Then let the wine flow straight to my lover,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_9">flowing over his lips and teeth.<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.7.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.10" class="v22_7_10">10</span>I belong to my lover, and he desires me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.11" class="v22_7_11">11</span>Come, darling, let's go out to the countryside</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_11">and spend the night in the villages.<a href="#fn" id="link_Song.7.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.12" class="v22_7_12">12</span>We will get up early and look at the vines</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_12">to see whether they've started to grow,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_12">whether the blossoms are opening</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_12">and the pomegranate trees are in bloom.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_12">There I will give you my love.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Song.7.13" class="v22_7_13">13</span>You can smell the scent of mandrakes,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_13">and all the pleasant fruits are near our door.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_7_13">Darling, I have kept for you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_7_13">the old delights and the new.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.5: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">beauty; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.9: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">lips and teeth; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">lips of those who sleep.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.11: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">villages; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">fields.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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