Song of Songs 7 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Sng 7:1

Sng 7:1How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a master hand.

Sng 7:2

Sng 7:2Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with lilies.

Sng 7:3

Sng 7:3Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.

Sng 7:4

Sng 7:4Your 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.

Sng 7:5

Sng 7:5Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.

Sng 7:6

Sng 7:6How beautiful and pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights![fn]

Sng 7:7

Sng 7:7Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.

Sng 7:8

Sng 7:8I 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,

Sng 7:9

Sng 7:9and your mouth[fn] like the best wine.

She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.[fn]

Sng 7:10

Sng 7:10I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

Sng 7:11

Sng 7:11Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;[fn]

Sng 7:12

Sng 7:12let 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.

Sng 7:13

Sng 7:13The 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.

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ESV Footnotes

(7:6)

Or among delights

(7:9)

Hebrew palate

(7:9)

Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak, or gliding over the lips of those who sleep

(7:11)

Or among the henna plants

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Song of Songs 7 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Bride Gives Her Love

ESV Footnotes

Song of Songs Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

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