7Verse 1You who are the daughter of a prince/king,you have lovely feet in your sandals.Your curved hips/thighs are like [SIM] jewelsthat have been made by a ◄skilled craftsman/man who shapes jewels very well►.Verse 2Your navel is like [MET] a round bowlthat is always full of wine mixed with spices.Your waist is like [SIM] a mound/bundle of wheatwith lilies growing around it.Verse 3Your breasts are as as beautiful as [SIM] two ◄fawns/young gazelles►. Verse 4Your neck is like [SIM] a tower made of ivory. Your eyes sparkle/shine like [MET] the pools in Heshbon city,near the Bath-Rabbim gate.Your nose is is as lovely as [SIM] the tower of Lebanonwhich faces toward Damascus.Verse 5Your head is majestic like [SIM] Carmel Mountain.Your long hair is shiny [SIM] and black; it is as though I, your king, am captured by your tresses.Verse 6You whom I love, who have many charming features that attract me,are very beautiful and pleasant/pleasing.Verse 7You are stately like [SIM] a palm tree,and your breasts are like [SIM] clusters/bunches of dates/fruit.Verse 8I said to myself, “I will climb that palm treeand take hold of those clusters of dates.”To me, your breasts are like clusters of grapes that I can feeland your breath is like the sweet fragrance of apples Verse 9and your kisses are like very good wine.The woman speaksMy kisses [MTY] go to the one who loves meand flow like wine over his lips and his teeth.Verse 10I belong to the man who loves me,and he desires me.Verse 11You who love me, let’s go to the countryside,and sleep among the henna bushes (OR, in one of the villages).Verse 12And let’s go early to the vineyardsto see if the grapevines have budded and if there are blossoms on them that have opened,and to see if the pomegranate trees are blooming,and there I will make love to you.Verse 13The mandrakes/love-apples are producing a fragrant odor,and we are surrounded by delightful pleasures [MET, EUP],new ones and old ones,pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, who love me.
Song of Solomon 7 — T4T
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Verse 4Your neck is like [SIM] a tower made of ivory.
Your eyes sparkle/shine like [MET] the pools in Heshbon city,near the Bath-Rabbim gate.Your nose is is as lovely as [SIM] the tower of Lebanonwhich faces toward Damascus.Verse 5Your head is majestic like [SIM] Carmel Mountain.Your long hair is shiny [SIM] and black;
it is as though I, your king, am captured by your tresses.Verse 6You whom I love, who have many charming features that attract me,are very beautiful and pleasant/pleasing.Verse 7You are stately like [SIM] a palm tree,and your breasts are like [SIM] clusters/bunches of dates/fruit.Verse 8I said to myself, “I will climb that palm treeand take hold of those clusters of dates.”To me, your breasts are like clusters of grapes that I can feeland your breath is like the sweet fragrance of apples
Verse 9and your kisses are like very good wine.The woman speaksMy kisses [MTY] go to the one who loves meand flow like wine over his lips and his teeth.Verse 10I belong to the man who loves me,and he desires me.Verse 11You who love me, let’s go to the countryside,and sleep among the henna bushes (OR, in one of the villages).Verse 12And let’s go early to the vineyardsto see if the grapevines have budded
and if there are blossoms on them that have opened,and to see if the pomegranate trees are blooming,and there I will make love to you.Verse 13The mandrakes/love-apples are producing a fragrant odor,and we are surrounded by delightful pleasures [MET, EUP],new ones and old ones,pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, who love me.