1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess! 7:1 Lit daughter of a nobleman, or prince, 7:1 Ps 45:13
The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
the handiwork of a master.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat
surrounded by lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle. 7:3 Sg 4:5
4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory, 7:4 Sg 4:4
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you 7:5 Lit head upon you is like Mount Carmel,
the hair of your head like purple cloth —
a king could be held captive 7:5 Sg 4:9 in your tresses.
6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant, 7:6 Sg 1:15–16
my love, with such delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit." 7:8 Pr 5:19
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots. 7:8 Sg 2:3
9 Your mouth 7:9 Lit palate is like fine wine 7:9 Sg 5:16 —
Woman
flowing smoothly for my love,
gliding past my lips and teeth! 7:9 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers
10 I am my love’s,
and his desire 7:10 Gn 3:16; 4:7 is for me. 7:10 Sg 2:16; 6:3; 8:6
11 Come, my love,
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms. 7:11 Or the villages
12 Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom. 7:12 Sg 6:11
There I will give you my caresses.
13 The mandrakes 7:13 Gn 30:14–16 give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy,
both new and old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.