Song of Solomon 7 KJV
The Bridegroom's Admiration
Song of Solomon Chapter 7: The Bridegroom's Admiration
The upward direction of the descriptive poem in chapter 7, beginning at the feet rather than the head, creates a deliberate literary reversal of the downward wasf in chapter 4, signaling a shift from initial courtship to established mutual possession.
1ow beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O princeโs daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 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.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 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;
9 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.
10 I am my belovedโs, and his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 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.
13 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.
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Did You Know?
The upward direction of the descriptive poem in chapter 7, beginning at the feet rather than the head, creates a deliberate literary reversal of the downward wasf in chapter 4, signaling a shift from initial courtship to established mutual possession.
The phrase "prince's daughter" in verse 1 echoes the royal daughter language of Psalm 45, subtly reinforcing the Song's Solomonic authorship claims while evoking messianic bridegroom typology in later Jewish and Christian exegesis.
Imagery of the beloved's navel as a "goblet" and belly as "heap of wheat set about with lilies" in verses 2-3 fuses royal banquet motifs with agricultural fertility, reflecting ancient Israelite harvest festivals where such unions were ritually celebrated.
The beloved's declaration in verse 10 that "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me" directly inverts the language of Genesis 3:16, portraying redeemed marital desire as a reversal of the fall's relational curse.
References to Heshbon, Lebanon, Carmel, and Damascus in verses 4-5 map the beloved's body onto the northern and eastern boundaries of Solomon's kingdom, transforming geopolitical territory into an eroticized portrait of Israel's idealized wholeness.