Revised Version 1895

Song of Songs 7:2-8

2Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

3Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe.

4Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim; thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

5ThineheadH6440uponעָלַ֙יִךְ֙'a.La.yikhH5921thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thineheadH6440like purple; thekingעַל־'al-H5921is held captive in the tresses thereof.

6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

8I said, I will climb up into thepalmבְתָמָ֔רve.ta.MarH8558treeלְתָמָ֔רle.ta.MarH8558, I will take hold of the branches thereof: let thybreastsH7699be asclustersH811of the vine, and the smell of thy breath like apples;

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Revised Version 1895 — 1895 — Public Domain