Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
navel—rather, "girdle-clasp," called from the part of the person underneath. The "shoes" (Song of Solomon 7:1) prove that dress is throughout presupposed on all parts where it is usually worn. She is "a bride adorned for her husband"; the "uncomely parts," being most adorned (I Corinthians 12:23). The girdle-clasp was adorned with red rubies resembling the "round goblet" (crater or mixer) of spice-mixed wine (not "liquor," Song of Solomon 8:2; Isaiah 5:22). The wine of the "New Testament in His blood" (Luke 22:20). The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Acts 2:13-17; Ephesians 5:18).
belly—that is, the vesture on it. As in Psalms 45:13-14, gold and needlework compose the bride's attire, so golden-colored "wheat" and white "lilies" here. The ripe grain, in token of harvest joy, used to be decorated with lilies; so the accumulated spiritual food (John 6:35; John 12:24), free from chaff, not fenced with thorns, but made attractive by lilies ("believers," Song of Solomon 2:2; Acts 2:46-47; Acts 5:13-14, in common partaking of it). Associated with the exhilarating wine cup (Zechariah 9:17), as here.
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