Song of Solomon 7:1

Song of Solomon 7:1

Expressions of Praise

The Beloved

1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
^aO prince’s daughter!
The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
The work of the hands of a skillful workman.

2 Your navel is a rounded goblet;
It lacks no¹ blended beverage.
Your waist is a heap of wheat
Set about with lilies.

3 ^aYour two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle.

4 ^aYour neck is like an ivory tower,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the hair of your head is like purple;
A king is held captive by your tresses.

6 How fair and how pleasant you are,
O love, with your delights!

7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree,
And your breasts like its clusters.

8 I said, “I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of its branches.”
Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
The fragrance of your¹ breath like apples,

9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine.
The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved,
¹Moving gently the² lips of sleepers.

The Shulamite

10 ^aI am my beloved’s,
And ^bhis desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved,
Let us go forth to the field;
Let us lodge in the villages.

12 Let us get up early to the vineyards;
Let us ^asee if the vine has budded,
Whether the grape blossoms are open,
And the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.

13 The ^amandrakes give off a fragrance,
And at our gates ^bare pleasant fruits,
All manner, new and old,
Which I have laid up for you, my beloved.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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thy feet—rather, "thy goings" (Psalms 17:5). Evident allusion to Isaiah 52:7 : "How beautiful . . . are the feet of him . . . that publisheth peace" (Shulamite, Song of Solomon 6:13).

shoes—Sandals are richly jewelled in the East (Luke 15:22; Ephesians 6:15). She is evidently "on the mountains," whither she was wafted (Song of Solomon 6:12), above the daughters of Jerusalem, who therefore portray her feet first.

daughter—of God the Father, with whom Jesus Christ is one (Matthew 5:9), "children of (the) God" (of peace), equivalent to Shulamite (Psalms 45:10-15; II Corinthians 6:18), as well as bride of Jesus Christ.

prince's—therefore princely herself, freely giving the word of life to others, not sparing her "feet," as in Song of Solomon 5:3; Exodus 12:11. To act on the offensive is defensive to ourselves.

joints—rather, "the rounding"; the full graceful curve of the hips in the female figure; like the rounding of a necklace (as the Hebrew for "jewels" means). Compare with the English Version, Ephesians 4:13-16; Colossians 2:19. Or, applying it to the girdle binding together the robes round the hips (Ephesians 6:14).

cunning workman— (Psalms 139:14-16; Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 2:22; Ephesians 5:29-30, Ephesians 5:32).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 7:1:**

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Expressions of Praise

The Beloved

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