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Solomon’s Praise of His Dancing Maiden

How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
    O royal princess![a]
The curves of your thighs[b] are like jewels,[c]
    the work of the hands of a craftsman.
Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl[d]
    that does not lack mixed[e] wine!
Your belly is a heap of wheat
    encircled with lilies.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twins of a gazelle.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:1 Or “O daughter of leader”
  2. Song of Solomon 7:1 Literally “thigh”
  3. Song of Solomon 7:1 Literally “ornaments”
  4. Song of Solomon 7:2 Literally “a bowl of the roundness”
  5. Song of Solomon 7:2 Or “blended”

[a]How beautiful your sandaled feet,
    O prince’s(A) daughter!
Your graceful legs are like jewels,
    the work of an artist’s hands.
Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
    encircled by lilies.
Your breasts(B) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:1 In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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Expressions of Praise

The Beloved

How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
(A)O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
Your navel is a rounded goblet;
It lacks no [a]blended beverage.
Your waist is a heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.
(B)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:2 Lit. mixed or spiced drink