_ “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman. Your navel is like a round goblet, In which no mingled wine is wanting, Your waist is like a sheaf of wheat, Set about with lilies. Your two breasts are l... [ Continue Reading ]
SECTION 6. The Restored Couple Rejoice In Each Other (Song of Solomon 7:1 to Song of Solomon 8:4). The restoration of the royal couple is now complete. Their harmony is fully restored, and they can once again enjoy their pure untrammeled love, back in the land of their original courtship. Once sh... [ Continue Reading ]
The BELOVED continues. _ “How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters. I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of its branches, Let your breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of... [ Continue Reading ]
_ “ --- Which goes down smoothly for my beloved, And makes the lips of the sleepers to speak. I am my beloved's, And his desire is towards me.”_ Taking up her beloved's theme his wife assures him that her lips will indeed provide the best wine for him, a wine which will go down his throat smoothly,... [ Continue Reading ]
The YOUNG WIFE continues her words to her beloved husband. _ “Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards, Let us see whether the vine has budded, And its blossom is open, And the pomegranates are in flower. There will I give... [ Continue Reading ]