Song of Songs · Young's Literal Translation
Song of Songs 7 Young's Literal Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 As the chorus of 'Mahanaim.' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides [are] as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer.
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 Thy waist [is] a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with 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 Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe,
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
4 Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to 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 Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!
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 fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
7 This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
8 I said, 'Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,
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 And thy palate as the good wine — 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!
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 I [am] my beloved's, and on me [is] his desire.
10 I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field,
11 Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.
12 We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;
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 have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee!
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
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