< Song of Solomon 7 >
1 what? be beautiful beat your in/on/with sandal daughter noble curve thigh your like ornament deed: work hand artisan
How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
2 navel your vessel [the] roundness not to lack [the] mixture belly: abdomen your heap wheat to fence in/on/with lily
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
3 two breast your like/as two fawn twin gazelle
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 neck your like/as tower [the] tooth: ivory eye your pool in/on/with Heshbon upon gate Bath-rabbim Bath-rabbim face: nose your like/as tower [the] Lebanon to watch face: before Damascus
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
5 head your upon you like/as Carmel and hair head your like/as purple king to bind in/on/with lock
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
6 what? be beautiful and what? be pleasant love in/on/with luxury
How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 this height your to resemble to/for palm and breast your to/for cluster
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
8 to say to ascend: rise in/on/with palm to grasp in/on/with fruit-stalk his and to be please breast your like/as cluster [the] vine (and aroma *L(b)*) face: nose your like/as apple
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 and palate your like/as wine [the] pleasant to go: went to/for beloved my to/for uprightness to glide lips sleeping
and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.
10 I to/for beloved my and upon me desire his
I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
11 to go: come! [emph?] beloved my to come out: come [the] land: country to lodge in/on/with village
Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
12 to rise to/for vineyard to see: see if to sprout [the] vine to open [the] blossom to bud [the] pomegranate there to give: give [obj] beloved: love my to/for you
Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
13 [the] mandrake to give: give aroma and upon entrance our all excellence new also old beloved my to treasure to/for you
The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.