| Chapter 7 |
1 | How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
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2 | Your body is like a round goblet, No mingled wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.
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3 | Your two breasts are like two fawns, That are twins of a roe.
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4 | Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
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5 | Your head on you is like Carmel, The hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in its tresses.
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6 | How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
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7 | This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
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8 | I said, 'I will climb up into the palm-tree. I will take hold of its fruit.' Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The smell of your breath like apples, Beloved
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9 | Your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
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10 | I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
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11 | Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
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12 | Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, Its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
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13 | The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
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