Song of Solomon 7:7

Song of Solomon 7:7

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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palm tree— (Psalms 92:12). The sure sign of water near (Exodus 15:27; John 7:38).

clusters—not of dates, as MOODY STUART thinks. The parallelism (Song of Solomon 7:8), "clusters of the vine," shows it is here clusters of grapes. Vines were often trained (termed "wedded") on other trees.

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