# Song 7
## Admiration by the Bridegroom
- 1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet,
- O daughter of the prince!
- The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
- the handiwork of a master.
- 2 Your navel is a rounded goblet;
- it never lacks blended wine.
- Your waist is a mound of wheat
- encircled by the lilies.
- 3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
- twins of a gazelle.
- 4 Your neck is like a tower
- made of ivory;
- your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon
- by the gate of Bath-rabbim;
- your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
- facing toward Damascus.
- 5 our head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
- the hair of your head like purple threads;
- the king is captured in your tresses.
- 6 How fair and pleasant you are,
- O love, with your delights!
- 7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
- your breasts are clusters of fruit.
- 8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree;
- I will take hold of its fruit.”
- May your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
- the fragrance of your breath like apples,
- 9 and your mouth {[[#^bsb-22-07-a| bsb-a ]]} like the finest [[H3196|wine]].
*The Bride*
- May it flow smoothly to my beloved,
- gliding gently over lips and teeth. {[[#^bsb-22-07-b| bsb-b ]], [[#^niv-22-07-a| niv-a ]]}
- 10 I belong to my beloved,
- and his desire is for me.
- 11 Come, my beloved,
- let us go to the countryside;
- let us spend the night among the wildflowers. {[[#^bsb-22-07-c| bsb-c ]], [[#^niv-22-07-b| niv-b ]]}
- 12 Let us go early to the vineyards
- to see if the vine has budded,
- if the blossom has opened,
- if the pomegranates are in bloom—
- there I will give you my love.
- 13 The mandrakes send forth a fragrance,
- and at our door is every delicacy,
- new as well as old,
- that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.
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### Footnotes:
- BSB
- 9 a Hebrew palate ^bsb-22-07-a
- 9 b LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew gliding gently over lips as we sleep ^bsb-22-07-b
- 11 c Or among the henna blossoms or in the villages ^bsb-22-07-c
- NIV
- a 9 Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew *lips of sleepers* ^niv-22-07-a
- b 11 Or *the henna bushes* ^niv-22-07-b
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