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Your navel is lovely as a goblet filled with wine. Your waist[a] is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, yes, lovely twins.[b] Your neck is stately as an ivory tower, your eyes as limpid pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is shapely[c] like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:2 Your waist, literally, “Your belly.”
  2. Song of Solomon 7:3 lovely twins, literally, “twins of a gazelle.”
  3. Song of Solomon 7:4 Your nose is shapely, implied.

Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
Your breasts(A) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.(B)
Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon(C)
    by the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon(D)
    looking toward Damascus.

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