Cânticos 7

1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

O *Ps. 45:13noble daughter!

Your rounded thighs are like *Prov. 25:12jewels,

the work of *[Prov. 8:30]a master hand.

2 Your navel is a rounded bowl

that never lacks mixed wine.

Your belly is a heap of wheat,

encircled with *ch. 2:1lilies.

3 *ch. 4:5Your two breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle.

4 Your *[ch. 4:4] neck is like an ivory tower.

Your *[ch. 5:12] eyes are pools in *Num. 21:26Heshbon,

by the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like a tower of *ch. 4:8;See 1 Kgs. 4:33Lebanon,

which looks toward *1 Kgs. 11:24;2 Kgs. 5:12Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you like *See Josh. 19:26Carmel,

and your *[ch. 4:1]flowing locks are like purple;

a king is held captive in the tresses.

6 *[ch. 1:15,16] How beautiful and *2 Sam. 1:23,26pleasant you are,

O loved one, with all your delights!*7:6 Or among 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 *[ch. 1:14;Mic. 7:1]clusters of the vine,

and the scent of your breath like apples,

9 and your *[ch. 5:16]mouth*7:9 Hebrew palate like the best wine.

She

It goes down smoothly for my beloved,

gliding over lips and teeth.*7:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak, or gliding over the lips of those who sleep

10 *ch. 2:16;6:3I am my beloved’s,

*[Ps. 45:11]and his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

11 *[ch. 2:10;4:8]Come, my beloved,

let us go out into the fields

and lodge in the villages;*7:11 Or among the henna plants

12 let us go out early to the vineyards

*ch. 6:11and see whether the vines have budded,

whether *ch. 2:13,15the grape blossoms have opened

and the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give you my love.

13 *Gen. 30:14;ch. 4:13The mandrakes give forth fragrance,

and beside our doors are all choice fruits,

*[Matt. 13:52]new as well as old,

which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.