Song Of Solomon

Song Of Solomon 7 ©

1 A further description of the church's graces. 10 The church professeth her faith and desire.

1

HOW abeautiful are thy feet with shoes, bO prince's daughter! cthe joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a *cunning workman.

a Ep. 6.15. Phi. 1.27.
b Ps. 45.10,13. 2Co. 6.18.
c 1Ti. 1.5. Col. 2.19. Ep. 4.15,16. 2Co. 5.14.
2

Thy dnavel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not 1liquor: ethy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with flilies.

d 1Co. 4.15. Ga. 4.19. 1Th. 2.7. 1Pe. 2.2. Mat. 4.4. 2Pe. 1.4. Je. 15.16.
e Ps. 119.11; 22.30; 45.15.
f ch. 2.1.
3

Thy gtwo breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

g ch. 4.5.
4

Thy hneck is as a tower of ivory; ithine eyes like the fishpools in jHeshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: kthy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

h ch. 1.10; 4.4. Ro. 6.6.
i Ep. 1.17,18; 3.18,19. Je. 9.1. La. 3.49,50; 2.18.
j Nu. 21.26.
k Pr. 22.3. He. 11.7. Ep. 5.15. Mar. 13.33; 14.38.
5

Thine lhead upon thee is like 2Carmel, and mthe hair of thine head like purple; nthe king is 3held in the galleries.

l Is. 35.2. Mi. 7.14. Ep. 4.15. Col. 2.19. He. 6.11,18,19. Ro. 8.24,25.
m ch. 4. Re. 1.5; 7.14.
n ch. 1.4.
6

How ofair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

o ch. 1.15,16; 2.3,14; 4.7. Is. 62.5. Zep. 3.17.
7

This pthy stature is like to a palm tree, and qthy breasts to clusters of grapes.

p Ps. 92.12. Ep. 4.13,16. Col. 2.19. 2Co. 1.12.
q v.3. ch. 4.5; 8.8. Is. 66.10,11.
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I said, rI will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy sbreasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the tsmell of thy nose like apples;

r Jn. 14.21,23. Je. 32.41. Ps. 110.3; 45.3-5.
s Is. 66.10,11. 2Pe. 1.8.
t 2Co. 2.14.
9

And uthe roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down 4sweetly, causing the lips 5of those that are asleep to speak.

u Col. 3.16,17; 4.6. Ac. 4.11,12; 2.37; 16.14.
10

vI am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

v ch. 2.16; 6.3. Ga. 2.20. Phi. 3.8,9. Ps. 45.11.
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wCome, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

w ch. 2.10-13; 4.8. Ps. 42.6; 63.1,2; 84.2. Is. 26.8,9.
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Let us xget up early to the vineyards; let yus see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape 6appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give zthee my loves.

x Ec. 9.10. Pr. 8.17.
y ch. 6.11. 2Co. 13.5. 1Co. 11.28. Ps. 139.23,24; 17.1,3.
z Ex. 25.22. Ps. 122.5. He. 4.16. Eze. 20.40,41. Ps. 63.1-7; 116.1-19; 145; 146.
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The a*mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are ball *manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

a Ge. 30.14.
b Ga. 5.22,23. Ps. 65.1,2. Mat. 13.52. 1Co. 2.9; 10.3. 1Pe. 4.11.