微读圣经

1How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!7:1 Lit daughter of a nobleman, or prince7:1 Ps 45:13

The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,

the handiwork of a master.

2Your navel is a rounded bowl;

it never lacks mixed wine.

Your belly is a mound of wheat

surrounded by lilies.

3Your breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle.7:3 Sg 4:5

4Your neck is like a tower of ivory,7:4 Sg 4:4

your eyes like pools in Heshbon

by Bath-rabbim’s gate.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

looking toward Damascus.

5Your head crowns you7:5 Lit head upon you is like Mount Carmel,

the hair of your head like purple cloth —

a king could be held captive7:5 Sg 4:9 in your tresses.

6How beautiful you are and how pleasant,7:6 Sg 1:15–16

my love, with such delights!

7Your stature is like a palm tree;

your breasts are clusters of fruit.

8I said, “I will climb the palm tree

and take hold of its fruit.”7:8 Pr 5:19

May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,

and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.7:8 Sg 2:3

9Your mouth7:9 Lit palate is like fine wine7:9 Sg 5:16 —

flowing smoothly for my love,

gliding past my lips and teeth!7:9 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads past lips of sleepers

10I am my love’s,

and his desire7:10 Gn 3:16; 4:7 is for me.7:10 Sg 2:16; 6:3; 8:6

11Come, my love,

let’s go to the field;

let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.7:11 Or the villages

12Let’s go early to the vineyards;

let’s see if the vine has budded,

if the blossom has opened,

if the pomegranates are in bloom.7:12 Sg 6:11

There I will give you my caresses.

13The mandrakes7:13 Gn 30:14–16 give off a fragrance,

and at our doors is every delicacy,

both new and old.

I have treasured them up for you, my love.

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