the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Song of Solomon 7
1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O (a)noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like (b)jewels,
the work of (c)a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with (d)lilies.
3 (e)Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4 Your (f)neck is like an ivory tower.
Your (g)eyes are pools in (h)Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of (i)Lebanon,
which looks toward (j)Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like (k)Carmel,
and your (l)flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 (m)How beautiful and (n)pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights![a]
7 Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like (o)clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your (p)mouth[b] like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.[c]
10 (q)I am my beloved's,
(r)and his desire is for me.
The Bride Gives Her Love
11 (s)Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages;[d]
12 let us go out early to the vineyards
(t)and see whether the vines have budded,
whether (u)the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 (v)The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
(w)new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
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