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SONG OF SOLOMON 7-8

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7:1
How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand. 2
Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies. 3
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle. 4
Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
which looks toward Damascus. 5
Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6
How beautiful and pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights! 7
Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters. 8
I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9
and your mouth like the best wine.She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.
10
I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me. The Bride Gives Her Love
11
Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages; 12
let us go out early to the vineyards
and see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love. 13
The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. Longing for Her Beloved
8:1
Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me. 2
I would lead you and bring you
into the house of my mother—
she who used to teach me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate. 3
His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me! 4
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
5
Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
6
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord. 7
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
he would be utterly despised. Final Advice
Others8
We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for? 9
If she is a wall,
we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar. She10
I was a wall,
and my breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds peace.
11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
he let out the vineyard to keepers;
each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. 12
My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the keepers of the fruit two hundred. He13
O you who dwell in the gardens,
with companions listening for your voice;
let me hear it. She14
Make haste, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.

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