1 (7-2) How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman. 2 (7-3) Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 (7-4) Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle. 4 (7-5) Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 5 (7-6) Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof. 6 (7-7) How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7 (7-8) This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 (7-9) I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy countenance like apples; 9 (7-10) And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.' 10 (7-11) I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. 11 (7-12) Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 (7-13) Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine hath budded, whether the vine-blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower; there will I give thee my love. 13 (7-14) The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Song of Songs · JPS Tanakh (1917)
Song of Songs 7 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
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
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