the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Song of Solomon 7:7
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You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
Your stature is like a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters.
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 thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
"Your stature is like that of a palm tree And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
Thi stature is licned to a palm tree, and thi tetis to clustris of grapis.
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.
You are tall and slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are full.
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 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.
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.
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 a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters.
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.
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.
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.
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 the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.
Your stature compares to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
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.
Your stature is like a palm tree,And your breasts are like its clusters.
Contextual Overview
The ShulamiteThe wine goes down smoothly for my beloved,Moving gently the lips of sleepers. [fn]
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 establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark--you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Luke 17:26,27">[xr] Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark--
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might [fn] have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited [fn] in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved 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.
