Song of Solomon 7
The full text of Song of Solomon 7 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
1 [He] 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,
overlooking 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] Let it go to my beloved smoothly,
gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I am my beloved's,
and his desire is for me.
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, my beloved.
Translation notes (4)
- Song of Solomon 7:2a Hebrew shorrerekh, 'your navel', occurs elsewhere only at Proverbs 3:8 and Ezekiel 16:4. Because the poem's praise moves upward from the feet and the image is a bowl that never lacks wine, many interpreters take the word as a euphemism for a more intimate part of the body; the traditional rendering 'navel' is retained here. The following bitnekh means 'your belly'.
- Song of Solomon 7:4a Heshbon, east of the Jordan, was the former capital of the Amorite king Sihon (Numbers 21:26), and excavations at the site have uncovered a large ancient reservoir, lending point to the image of still, deep pools. Bath-rabbim, literally 'daughter of many', is otherwise unknown and is likely the name of one of the city's gates.
- Song of Solomon 7:9a The woman interrupts mid-verse, completing the man's praise by directing the wine to him; the change of speaker is an editorial judgment, since the Hebrew marks no break. The Masoretic Text ends with siftei yeshenim, 'lips of sleepers'; the rendering 'lips and teeth' follows the Septuagint and Syriac, which presuppose Hebrew shinayim, 'teeth'.
- Song of Solomon 7:13a Hebrew duda'im, 'mandrakes' (דּוּדָאִים), designates a plant long associated with fertility and desire in the ancient Near East, as in Rachel's bargain for mandrakes in Genesis 30:14-16. The word plays on dodi, 'my beloved', and dodim, 'love', binding the fragrant plant to the passion promised in the preceding verse.
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