Song of Solomon 7

Solomon’s Praise of His Dancing Maiden

¹How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

The curves of your thighs are like jewels,

²Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl[#Literally “a bowl of the roundness”]

Your belly is a heap of wheat

³Your two breasts are like two fawns,

⁴Your neck is like a tower of ivory;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

⁵Your head crowns you like Carmel;[#Literally “Your head is on you like the Carmel”; #Because of its height and fertility, Mount Carmel is often associated with royalty]

⁶How beautiful you are and how pleasant,

⁷Your stature is like the palm tree,[#Literally “this your height”]

⁸I say, “I will climb up the palm tree;

Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine

⁹Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved,

Mutual Possession Refrain

¹⁰I belong to my beloved,[#Literally “I am for my beloved”]

Rendezvous in the Countryside

¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside;[#Literally “go forth into the field”]

¹²Let us rise early to go to the vineyards;[#Or “let us go”]

whether the grape blossom has opened,

there I will give my love to you.

¹³The mandrakes give off their fragrance,

both fresh and dried fruit I have stored up for you, O my beloved.