Song of Songs 7

I Am My Beloved’s, and His Desire Is Toward Me

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7:1Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, and we shall look at you. What will you see in the Shulammite? She comes like dances of the camps.

7:2How beautiful your steps in sandals have become, daughter of Nadab! The rhythms of your thighs are like necklaces, the work of a craftsman’s hands.

7:3Your navel is a sculpted mixing bowl, not lacking mixed wine; your belly is a heap of grain fenced about with lilies.

7:4Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

7:5Your neck is like an ivory tower; your eyes are like pools in Heshbon at the gates of the daughter of many. Your nose is like Lebanon’s tower looking toward Damascus.

7:6Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the braid of your head is like purple; a king is bound in passageways.

7:7How beautiful and how delightful you have become, love, in your delights!

7:8This stature of yours has been compared to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters.

7:9I said: I will climb the palm tree; I will grasp its heights. Then your breasts will be like clusters of the vine, and the fragrance of your nose like apples,

7:10and your throat like good wine, going straight to my kinsman, suited to my lips and teeth.

7:11I am my kinsman’s, and his turning is toward me.

7:12Come, my kinsman, let us go out into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

7:13Let us rise early for the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has blossomed, whether the bloom has flowered, whether the pomegranates have flowered. There I will give you my breasts.

7:14The mandrakes have given fragrance, and at our doors are all tree fruits, new together with old, which I have kept for you, my kinsman.

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