[a]Your stature is like a palm tree,
And your breasts are like its clusters.
I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,
I will grasp its fruit stalks.’
Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
And the fragrance of your [b]breath like (A)apples,
And your [c](B)mouth like the best wine!”

The Bride

“It (C)goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Flowing gently through the lips of those who are asleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:7 Lit This stature of yours
  2. Song of Solomon 7:8 Lit nose
  3. Song of Solomon 7:9 Lit palate

This thy stature is like to a palm-tree,
And thy breasts to its clusters.
I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree,
I will take hold of the branches thereof:
Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine,
And the smell of thy [a]breath like apples,
And thy [b]mouth like the best wine,
That goeth down [c]smoothly for my beloved,
[d]Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:8 Hebrew nose.
  2. Song of Solomon 7:9 Hebrew palate.
  3. Song of Solomon 7:9 Hebrew aright.
  4. Song of Solomon 7:9 Or, Causing the lips of those that are asleep to move (or, speak)