Chapter 7
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 feet
Luke 15.22 Ephesians 6.15 Philippians 1.27
O prince's
Psalms 45.13 2 Corinthians 6.18
the joints
Daniel 2.32 Ephesians 4.15,16 Colossians 2.19
the work
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
navel
liquor
Heb. mixture. thy belly.
5.14 Psalms 45.16 Isaiah 46.3 Jeremiah 1.5 Romans 7.4
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
neck
ivory
5.14 1 Kings 10.18,22 22.39 Psalms 45.8 144.12
thine eyes
That is, "Thine eyes are dark, deep, clear, and serene, as the fish-pools in Heshbon. "
4.1,9 6.5 Ephesians 1.17,18 3.18,19
Heshbon
thy nose
That is, "Thy nose is as finely formed as the tower of Lebanon."
Philippians 1.9,10 Hebrews 5.14
the tower
4.8 5.15 1 Kings 7.2 9.19 2 Chronicles 8.6
Damascus
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
head
Isaiah 35.2 Ephesians 1.22 4.15,16 Colossians 1.18 2.19
Carmel
or, crimson.
the hair
the king
1.17 *marg:; Genesis 32.26 Psalms 68.24 87.2 Matthew 18.20 28.20
held
Heb. bound.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
10 1.15,16 2.14 4.7,10 Psalms 45.11 Isaiah 62.4,5 Zephaniah 3.17
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
thy stature
Psalms 92.12 Jeremiah 10.5 Ephesians 4.13
thy breasts
3,8 1.13 4.5 8.8 Isaiah 66.10 Ephesians 3.17
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
I will go
4.16 5.1 Jeremiah 32.41 John 14.21-23
the smell
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
the roof
2.14 5.16 Proverbs 16.24 Ephesians 4.29 Colossians 3.16,17 4.6 Hebrews 13.15
the best
Isaiah 62.8,9 Zechariah 9.15-17 Acts 2.11-13,46,47 4.31,32 16.30-34
sweetly
Heb. straightly. those that are asleep. or, the ancient.
5.2 Romans 13.11 1 Thessalonians 4.13,14 Revelation 14.13
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
my
2.16 6.3 Acts 27.23 1 Corinthians 6.19,20 Galatians 2.20
his
5,6 Job 14.15 Psalms 45.11 147.11 John 17.24
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
let us go
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
get
Proverbs 8.17 Ecclesiastes 9.10
let us see
6.11 Proverbs 24.30,31 Acts 15.36 2 Corinthians 13.5 1 Thessalonians 3.5,6 Hebrews 12.15 2.13,15 Isaiah 18.5
appear
Heb. open. there will I give thee.
6 4.16 Exodus 25.22 Psalms 43.4 63.3-8 73.25 122.5 Ezekiel 20.40,41 Romans 5.11 2 Corinthians 5.14,15 Ephesians 6.24 Hebrews 4.16
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
mandrakes
at our
4.16 5.1 John 15.8 Galatians 5.22,23 Ephesians 5.9 Philippians 1.11
new
I have
Isaiah 23.18 60.6,7 Matthew 25.40 Romans 15.25-27 1 Corinthians 2.9 16.2 8.8,9 Colossians 3.17 1 Peter 4.11