Song of Solomon 7
1 what? be beautiful beat your in/on/with sandal daughter noble curve thigh your like ornament deed: work hand artisan
How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess! Your curved thighs are like ornaments made by a master craftsman.
2 navel your vessel [the] roundness not to lack [the] mixture belly: abdomen your heap wheat to fence in/on/with lily
Your navel is like a round bowl—may it never lack spiced wine! Your abdomen is like a mound of wheat surrounded by lilies.
3 two breast your like/as two fawn twin gazelle
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 neck your like/as tower [the] tooth: ivory eye your pool in/on/with Heshbon upon gate Bath-rabbim Bath-rabbim face: nose your like/as tower [the] Lebanon to watch face: before Damascus
Your neck is as elegant as a tower made of ivory. Your eyes shine like the pools of Heshbon by the Bathrabbin gate. Your nose is beautiful, prominent like the tower in Lebanon that faces Damascus.
5 head your upon you like/as Carmel and hair head your like/as purple king to bind in/on/with lock
Your head is as magnificent as Mount Carmel; your black hair has a purple sheen, as if a king was held captive in your locks!
6 what? be beautiful and what? be pleasant love in/on/with luxury
How beautiful you are, my love—how attractive are your charms!
7 this height your to resemble to/for palm and breast your to/for cluster
You are as tall and slender as a palm tree; your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
8 to say to ascend: rise in/on/with palm to grasp in/on/with fruit-stalk his and to be please breast your like/as cluster [the] vine (and aroma *Lb) face: nose your like/as apple
I tell myself, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of the fruit.” May your breasts be like bunches of grapes on the vine, and your breath have the scent of apples!
9 and palate your like/as wine [the] pleasant to go: went to/for beloved my to/for uprightness to glide lips sleeping
May your kisses be like the best wine, going down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
10 I to/for beloved my and upon me desire his
My love is mine, and I am the one he desires!
11 to go: come! [emph?] beloved my to come out: come [the] land: country to lodge in/on/with village
Come, my love, let's go out into the countryside, and spend the night among the henna flowers.
12 to rise to/for vineyard to see: see if to sprout [the] vine to open [the] blossom to bud [the] pomegranate there to give: give [obj] beloved: love my to/for you
Let's go early to the vineyards and see if the vines have budded and are in flower, and if the pomegranates are blossoming. There I will give my love to you.
13 [the] mandrake to give: give aroma and upon entrance our all excellence new also old beloved my to treasure to/for you
The mandrakes give off their fragrant scent; we are surrounded by all kinds of delights, new as well as old, which I have saved up for you, my love.
