Jul 7 - Song of Solomon 7-8
Song of Solomon
1Chorus to Groom: What will you see in the Sulamitess, other than choruses of encampments? Chorus to Bride: How beautiful are your footsteps in shoes, O daughter of a ruler! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, which have been fabricated by the hand of an artist2Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies3Your two breasts are like two young twin does4Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes like the fish ponds at Heshbon, which are at the entrance to the daughter of the multitude. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looks out toward Damascus5Your head is like Carmel, and the hairs of your head are like the purple of the king, bound into pleats6Most beloved one, how beautiful you are, and how graceful in delights7Your stature is comparable to the palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes8Groom: I said, I will ascend to the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. And your breasts will be like clusters of grapes on the vine. And the fragrance of your mouth will be like apples9Bride: Your throat is like the finest wine: wine worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and teeth to contemplate10I am for my beloved, and his turning is to me11Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages12Let us go up in the morning to the vineyards; let us see if the vineyard has flourished, if the flowers are ready to bear fruit, if the pomegranates have flourished. There I will give my breasts to you13The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you
1Bride to Groom: Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?2I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates3His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me4Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills5Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?. Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated6Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames7A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing8Chorus: Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon9If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar10Bride to Chorus: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace11The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver12Groom: My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit13Bride to Groom: Your friends are attentive to those who have been dwelling in the gardens. Cause me to heed your voice14Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants