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Love with exquisite delights">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your stature<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:7 Lit. This stature of yours">g</a></span> is like a palm tree,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your breasts are like clusters of fruit.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:7 The Heb. lacks of fruit">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I told myself, “I’ll go up the palm tree,</p> <p class="poetry2">and take hold of its fruit.</p> <p class="poetry2">May your breasts be like clusters of the vine,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:8 i.e. grapes">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and the smell of your breath like apples.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:8 Or apricots">j</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>May your mouth<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:9 Lit. palate">k</a></span> be like good wine.</p> <p class="heading">The Loved One</p><p class="poetry2">May it go down smoothly to my beloved,</p> <p class="poetry2">gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I belong to my beloved,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his desire is for me.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Come, my beloved.</p> <p class="poetry2">Let us go out to the country,</p> <p class="poetry2">let us spend the night in the villages.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:10 Or night among the henna blossoms">l</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let us go early to the vineyards,</p> <p class="poetry2">let us see whether the vine has budded,</p> <p class="poetry2">whether the blossom has opened,</p> <p class="poetry2">whether the pomegranates have bloomed.</p> <p class="poetry2">There I’ll give you my love.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The mandrakes give off their<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="7:13 The Heb. lacks their">m</a></span> fragrance,</p> <p class="poetry2">and over our doors are all the choice fruits,</p> <p class="poetry2">both old and new,</p> <p class="poetry2">that I’ve stored up for you, my beloved.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 7:1 This v. is 7:2 in MT<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 7:1 Or <i>prince’s daughter</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 7:4 The Heb. lacks <i>like the</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 7:5 Lit. <i>is on you</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 7:5 Lit. <i>the hair of your head</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 7:6 Or <i>my love with exquisite delights</i>; 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