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Beautiful From Bottom to Top

The Friends

13 Turn back, turn back, O Shulammite.
Turn back, turn back, so that we may look at you![a]

The Woman[b]

Why would you look at the Shulammite.
    as at the dance of Mahanaim?[c]

The Friends or The Man

How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
    O prince’s daughter!
Your hips are curved like a necklace,
the work of the hands of a craftsman.
Your navel is a round mixing bowl.
It never lacks blended wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat, encircled by lilies.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle.
Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon,
    by the gate of Bat Rabbim.[d]
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
    overlooking Damascus.
Your head rises above you like Mount Carmel.
The flowing hair of your head is like purple.
The king is captivated by its curls.

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 6:13 English verse 6:13 is 7:1 in Hebrew. In the rest of chapter 7, the English verse numbers are one lower than the Hebrew verse numbers.
  2. Song of Songs 7:1 The identity of the speaker of this verse is uncertain.
  3. Song of Songs 7:1 Mahanaim is the name of a city. It means two camps. Here the term may refer to two lines of dancers.
  4. Song of Songs 7:5 Bat Rabbim means Daughter of Nobles.