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Song of Solomon 7:7
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Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
Your stature is like a palm tree;your breasts are clusters of fruit.
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters.
You are tall— as tall as a palm tree. And your breasts are like the clusters of fruit on that tree.
"Your stature is like that of a palm tree And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.
You are tall and slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are full.
How beautiful you are, my love, how charming, how delightful!
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
This thy stature is like to a palme tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
Your stature is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.
Your stature compares to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit.
The Lover to His Beloved:
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters.
You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
You stand like a palm tree. And your breasts are like its fruit.
You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
This thy stature, is like to a palm-tree, and, thy breasts, are like clusters:
Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of grapes.
You are as graceful as a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of dates.
"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Thy stature is lyke a paulme tree, and thy breastes lyke the grapes.
Thi stature is licned to a palm tree, and thi tetis to clustris of grapis.
This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
Your stature is like a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
Thy stature is like a date tre, and thy brestes like the grapes. I sayde:
"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
Your stature is like a palm tree,And your breasts are like its clusters.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy stature: Psalms 92:12, Jeremiah 10:5, Ephesians 4:13
thy breasts: Song of Solomon 7:3, Song of Solomon 7:8, Song of Solomon 1:13, Song of Solomon 4:5, Song of Solomon 8:8, Isaiah 66:10, Ephesians 3:17
Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 8:10 - my Ezekiel 40:26 - palm trees Joel 1:12 - the pomegranate
Cross-References
But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.
In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.
For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life.
A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
For as in the dayes before the flood, they did eate and drinke, marrie, and giue in mariage, vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke,
They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,
By faith Noe being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seene, mooued with reuerence, prepared the Arke to the sauing of his housholde, through the which Arke hee condemned the world, and was made heire of the righteousnes, which is by faith.
Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This thy stature is like to a palm tree,.... Made up of the above parts commended, and others had in view, as appears from the relative "this". The word for "stature" properly signifies height, tallness, and erectness; and which were reckoned agreeable in women, as well as men; :-; hence methods are often made use of to make them look taller, as by their head dresses, their shoes, and by stretching out their necks, Isaiah 3:16; and the simile of a tree is not an improper one: and so Galatea is, for height and tallness, compared to an alder and to a plane tree h; and Helena, to a cypress tree in a garden i, on the same account; and here the church to a palm tree: the Egyptian palm tree is said to be the best k; and if Solomon here has any reference to Pharaoh's daughter, his wife, he might think of that, which is described
"of body straight, high, round, and slender l,''
and fitly expresses a good shape and stature. The church's stature is no other than the "stature of the fulness of Christ", Ephesians 4:13; which will be attained unto when all the elect are gathered in, and every member joined to the body, and all filled with the gifts and graces of the spirit designed for them, and are grown up to a just proportion in the body; and in such a state Christ seems to view his church, and so commends her by this simile: saints are oftentimes compared to palm trees in Scripture on other accounts; see Psalms 92:12;
and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes]; on a vine which might be planted by and run up upon a palm tree, as Aben Ezra suggests: though rather clusters of dates, the fruit of the palm tree, are designed, since this fruit, as Pliny m observes, grows in clusters; and to clusters of the vine the church's breasts are compared in Song of Solomon 7:8. And by these "breasts" may be meant either the ministers of the Gospel, who communicate the sincere milk of the word to souls; and may be compared to clusters for their numbers, when there is plenty of them, which is a great mercy to the church; and for their unity, likeness, and agreement in their work, in their ministrations, and in the doctrine they preach, though their gifts may be different; or else the two Testaments, full of the milk of the word; and comparable to "clusters" of grapes or dates, because of the many excellent doctrines and precious promises in them; which, when pressed by hearing, reading, meditation, and prayer, yield both delight and nourishment to the souls of men. Some think the two ordinances of the Gospel, baptism and the Lord's supper, are intended, which are breasts of consolation; and, when the presence of Christ, and the manifestations of his love, are enjoyed in them, they afford much pleasure and satisfaction; and as those breasts are full in themselves, they are beautiful in the eye of Christ, and as such commended; Song of Solomon 7:8- :.
h Ovid. Metamorph. l. 13. Fab. 8. i Theocrit. Idyll. 18. v. 30. k A. Gellii Nect. Attic. l. 7. c. 16. Vid. Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 563. l Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 79. m Nat. Hist. l. 13. c. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A brief dialogue; Song of Solomon 7:6-9 are spoken by the king, Song of Solomon 7:9 and Song of Solomon 7:10 by the bride.
Song of Solomon 7:6
A general sentiment.
How fair, and what a charm hast thou,
O love! Among delightsome things!
Compare Song of Solomon 2:7, note; Song of Solomon 8:6-7, note.
Song of Solomon 7:7
This thy stature - The king now addresses the bride, comparing her to palm, vine, and apple-tree for nobility of form and pleasantness of fruit; and the utterances of her mouth to sweetest wine.
Song of Solomon 7:9
For my beloved, that goeth down sweetly - Words of the bride interrupting the king, and finishing his sentence, that goeth smoothly or pleasantly for my beloved. Compare Proverbs 23:31.
Song of Solomon 7:10
His desire is toward me - All his affection has me for its object. The bride proceeds to exercise her power over his loving will.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 7:7. Like to a palm tree — Which is remarkably straight, taper, and elegant.
And thy breasts to clusters of grapes.] Dates are the fruit of the palm tree; they grow in clusters; and it is these, not grapes, which are intended.
