Song of Solomon 7.

¹How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. ²Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. ³Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. ⁴Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. ⁵Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses. ⁶How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! ⁷This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. ⁸I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved ⁹Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. ¹⁰I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me. ¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages. ¹²Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. ¹³The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Commentary (3)

Adam Clarke

A farther description of the bride, Sol 7:1-9. Her invitation to the bridegroom, Sol 7:10-13.

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 7

In this chapter Christ gives a fresh commendation of the beauty of his church, in a different order and method than before; beginning with her "feet", and so rising upwards to the "hair" of her head, and the roof of her mouth, Sol 7:1; And then the church asserts her interest in him, and his desire towards her, Sol 7:10; and invites him to go with her into the fields, villages, and vineyards, and offers various reasons, by which she urges him to comply with her invitation, Sol 7:11.

JFB

thy feet--rather, "thy goings" (Psa 17:5). Evident allusion to Isa 52:7 : "How beautiful . . . are the feet of him . . . that publisheth peace" (Shulamite, Sol 6:13).

shoes--Sandals are richly jewelled in the East (Luk 15:22; Eph 6:15). She is evidently "on the mountains," whither she was wafted (Sol 6:12), above the daughters of Jerusalem, who therefore portray her feet first.

daughter--of God the Father, with whom Jesus Christ is one (Mat 5:9), "children of (the) God" (of peace), equivalent to Shulamite (Psa 45:10-15; Co2 6:18), as well as bride of Jesus Christ.

prince's--therefore princely herself, freely giving the word of life to others, not sparing her "feet," as in Sol 5:3; Exo 12:11. To act on the offensive is defensive to ourselves.

joints--rather, "the rounding"; the full graceful curve of the hips in the female figure; like the rounding of a necklace (as the Hebrew for "jewels" means). Compare with the English Version, Eph 4:13-16; Col 2:19. Or, applying it to the girdle binding together the robes round the hips (Eph 6:14).

cunning workman-- (Psa 139:14-16; Eph 2:10, Eph 2:22; Eph 5:29-30, Eph 5:32).

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