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Revised
Standard Version of the Holy Bible

Song
of Solomon Chapter 7 (Revised Standard Version)
Song of Solomon 7
1 How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your
rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your
belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rab'bim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
overlooking Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like
purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its
clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh,
may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your
breath like apples,
9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding
over lips and teeth.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in
the villages;
12 let 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.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over 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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