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Song of Solomon 7:7
The Lover to His Beloved:
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.Bible Study Resources
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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 clusters of grapes.
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.
You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit.
"Your stature is like that of a palm tree And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
This thy stature is like a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters.
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.
You are tall and slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are full.
How beautiful you are, my love, how charming, how delightful!
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 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 the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.
Your stature compares to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
Thy stature is like a date tre, and thy brestes like the grapes. I sayde:
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
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.
Thy stature is lyke a paulme tree, and thy breastes lyke the 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].
Thi stature is licned to a palm tree, and thi tetis to clustris of grapis.
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].
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.
You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
Contextual Overview
The Lover to His Beloved:
How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O nobleman's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a master craftsman. 2 Your navel is a round mixing bowl— may it never lack mixed wine! Your belly is a mound of wheat, encircled by lilies. 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. 4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries— the king is held captive in its tresses! 6 How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights! 7The Lover to His Beloved:
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes. 8 I want to climb the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit stalks. May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes, and may the fragrance of your breath be like apples! 9 May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.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 I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through 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.
