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Song of Solomon 7
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1Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.
1Your steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of [your] thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman.
2Thy steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of [thy] thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman.
2Your navel is [as] a turned bowl, not lacking liquor; your belly is [as] a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3Thy navel is [as] a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is [as] a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3Your two breasts are as two twin fawns.
4Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns.
4Your neck is as an ivory tower; your eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: your nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.
5Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.
5Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.
6Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.
6How beautiful are you, and how sweet are you, [my] love!
7How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, [my] love!
7This is your greatness in your delights: you were made like a palm tree, and your breasts to cluster.
8This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters.
8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose of apples;
9I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose as apples;
9and your throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.
10and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.
10I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me.
11I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me.
11Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, [if] the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.
13Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, [if] the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.
13The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors [are] all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept [them] for you.