Song of Songs · Free Bible Version
Song of Songs 7 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess! Your curved thighs are like ornaments made by a master craftsman.
1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
2 Your navel is like a round bowl—may it never lack spiced wine! Your abdomen is like a mound of wheat surrounded by lilies.
2 Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
4 Your neck is as elegant as a tower made of ivory. Your eyes shine like the pools of Heshbon by the Bathrabbin gate. Your nose is beautiful, prominent like the tower in Lebanon that faces Damascus.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
5 Your head is as magnificent as Mount Carmel; your black hair has a purple sheen, as if a king was held captive in your locks!
5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
6 How beautiful you are, my love—how attractive are your charms!
6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
7 You are as tall and slender as a palm tree; your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
8 I tell myself, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of the fruit.” May your breasts be like bunches of grapes on the vine, and your breath have the scent of apples!
8 I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.
9 May your kisses be like the best wine, going down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
9 Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
10 My love is mine, and I am the one he desires!
10 I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.
11 Come, my love, let's go out into the countryside, and spend the night among the henna flowers.
11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.
12 Let's go early to the vineyards and see if the vines have budded and are in flower, and if the pomegranates are blossoming. There I will give my love to you.
12 Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give off their fragrant scent; we are surrounded by all kinds of delights, new as well as old, which I have saved up for you, my love.
13 The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 45:13; Colossians 2:19; Daniel 2:32; Ephesians 6:15; Exodus 28:15
- 2 Romans 7:4; Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 45:16; Proverbs 3:8; Song of Songs 5:14
- 3 Song of Songs 4:5; Song of Songs 6:6
- 4 Song of Songs 4:4; Song of Songs 4:8–9; Psalm 144:12; 1 Kings 22:39; 1 Kings 9:19
- 5 Isaiah 35:2; Song of Songs 4:1; Psalm 68:24; Genesis 32:26; Song of Songs 5:11
- 6 Song of Songs 4:10; Song of Songs 1:15–16; Psalm 45:11; Song of Songs 2:14; Isaiah 62:4–5
- 7 Song of Songs 4:5; Ephesians 4:13; Isaiah 66:10; Ephesians 3:17; Psalm 92:12
- 8 2 Corinthians 2:14; John 14:21–23; Song of Songs 4:16–5:1; Song of Songs 2:3; Song of Songs 1:3
- 9 Song of Songs 5:16; Isaiah 62:8–9; Zechariah 9:15–17; Acts 16:30–34; Hebrews 13:15
- 10 Psalm 45:11; Song of Songs 6:3; Song of Songs 2:16; Galatians 2:20; John 17:24
- 11 Song of Songs 4:8; Song of Songs 2:10–13; Song of Songs 1:4
- 12 Song of Songs 6:11; Ephesians 6:24; Song of Songs 7:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:5–6; 2 Corinthians 13:5
- 13 Genesis 30:14; Matthew 13:52; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 8:8–9; Romans 15:25–27
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences