Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom
Song of Songs chapter 7
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How graceful your feet in sandals, !
The of your thighs are like jeweled chains,
shaped by the hands of a master craftsman.Your is a curved bowl —
may it never lack its wine.
Your is a heap of wheat
bordered with lilies.Your two breasts are like two ,
twins of a gazelle.Your neck is like an .
Your eyes — the
beside the gate of .
Your nose is like the
facing toward Damascus.Your head crowns you like ,
and the flowing hair of your head is like —
a king is in its tresses.How beautiful you are, how —
O love, !Your stature is like a ,
and your breasts like its .I said, “I will that palm tree
and take hold of its branches.”
Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like ,and your mouth like the finest wine —
flowing straight to my lover,
.I to my beloved,
and his reaches toward me.Come, my beloved — let us go out to the fields
and spend the night among the .Let us rise early to the —
let us see whether the vine has budded,
whether the blossoms have opened,
whether the are in bloom.
There I will give you .The send out their fragrance,
and over our doors are all the —
new and old alike —
my beloved, I have for you.