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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Song of Solomon 7:9

The roof of thy mouth Thy speech, the palate being one of the principal instruments of speech; like the best wine Grateful and refreshing; for my beloved Who reapest the comfort and benefit of that pleasure which I take in thee. Causing the lips, &c., to speak The most dull, and stupid, and sleepy persons to speak.

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See also Song of Solomon 7:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 9. _THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH LIKE THE BEST WINE_] The _voice_ or _conversation_ of the spouse is most probably what is meant. _CAUSING THE LIPS OF THOSE THAT ARE ASLEEP TO SPEAK._] As _good_ _win...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A brief dialogue; Song of Solomon 7:6 are spoken by the king, Song of Solomon 7:9 and Song of Solomon 7:10 by the bride....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The rapturous outburst in praise of the bride, the saved and glorified remnant of Israel, with which this chapter begins, must not be put into the lips of the bridegroom, the Messiah-King. I...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SONG OF SOLOMON 6:13 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 8:4. THE DANCING BRIDE AND THE RAPTURE OF LOVE. This section also is probably composed of different lyrics, though it is difficult to separate them; we have fir...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH. the palate. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for speech. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. THE LIPS OF THOSE THAT ARE ASLEEP. slumbering lips....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Song of Solomon 7:7 Chap. Song of Solomon 8:4. The King and the Shepherdess the last Assault We may suppose that after her attendants have completed the Shulammite's adornment, and have finished thei...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and the roof of thy mouth_ Better, as R.V., AND THY MOUTH. _Chçkh_is the palate, but it is used for the mouth. Cp. ch. Song of Solomon 5:16; Hosea 8:1. The reference here as in Song of Solomon 5:16 i

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 7:1-10 _Solomon; Song of Solomon 7:1-9_ (Song of Solomon 7:1-5 may be remarks of women attendants) _Shulammite_ (interrupting the King); Song of Solomon 7:9 b -...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. ROOF OF THY MOUTH - thy voice (). BEST WINE - the new wi...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:9 ... (c-11) The feminine speaker interrupts here. for (d-16) Or 'that floweth straight to.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-6. The _wasf_ begins with a eulogy of her dancing: her steps in sandals (RV) are lovely, and the circling movements of her body are graceful as ornamental chains. In Eastern dancing the twisting and...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 THE MAN V1 You have *sandals on your feet. Your feet are as beautiful as the feet of a prince’s daughter!...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    She adds that her desire is to provide the best things for her husband. Verse 10 This is the final form of the phrase that she used at 2:16 and 6:3. This time, she shows a mature attitude. She has m...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CAUSING THE LIPS. — The text in this verse has evidently undergone some change. The LXX., in stead of _siphtheî yesheynîm,_ lips of sleepers, read _sephathaîm veshinnayîm,_ χέιλεσί μου καὶ ὸδοῦσι. The...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Song of Solomon 7:10]_ וְ חִכֵּ֕ךְ כְּ יֵ֥ין הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS THUS far we have been considering the bare, literal sense of the text. It cannot be denied that, if only to lead up to the metaphorical significance of the words employed, tho...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    2. Solomon (Song of Solomon 6:4; Song of Solomon 7:1). His Musing. (a) Description of the Shulamite (Song of Solomon 6:4 a). (b) Effect on the Virgins of the Vision of Her ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lips. Septuagint, "sufficient for my lips and teeth." (Haydock) --- The wine in that country was very thick, when kept a long time. It here denotes charity, or the gospel truths, Luke v. 37., and Act...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! (7) This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. (8) I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hol...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. And this experience makes her understand through grace another aspect of her relationship, proving a real progress in the intelligence of grace and c...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH LIKE THE BEST WINE,.... Which may intend, either her taste, as the word is rendered in Song of Solomon 2:3; by which she can distinguish good wine from bad, truth from error;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. Ver. 9. _And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine._] He...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Song 7:9. "And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." By the roof of the mouth is here probably meant hi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and the roof of thy mouth, the sweetness of the palate referring to the loveliness of her kisses, LIKE THE BEST WINE FOR MY BELOVED, THAT GOETH DOWN SWEETLY, or smoothly, CAUSING THE LIPS OF THOSE THA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VICTORIOUS PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. The Beauty of the Church's Progress...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SWEETLY: _ Heb._ straightly OF THOSE THAT ARE ASLEEP: Or, of the ancient...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The similitudes here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. Such honour have all his saints; and having put on Christ, they are dis...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH; either, 1. Thy speech, the palate being one of the principal instruments of speech; or rather, 2. Thy taste, whereof the palate or roof of the mouth is the most proper and prin...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Song of Solomon 7:9 mouth H2441 best H2896 wine H3196 goes H1980 (H8802) smoothly H4339 beloved H1730 gently...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    _ “ --- 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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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-tr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further description of the beauties of the Bride. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: The Bride of Christ bears the image of the King of Kings and in the beauty of hol...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Song of Solomon 7:1. _How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, oh prince's daughter!_ We find the term “king's daughter,” in Psalms 45:13. The church has assurance that the Lord her Maker is her husband...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 This description of the woman’s beauty echoes that of Song of Solomon 4:1 (see her description of the man in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Song of Solomon 7:9. _And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak_. ‘For my beloved,’ לְדוֹדִי _le-dh...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Song of Solomon 7:13. _The mandrakes give a smell_. ‘Mandrakes.’ הַדּוּדָיִם _ha-dudhaim;_ plural of דוּדַי a love-apple, from דּוּד to love. So GESENIUS and others. ‘A mandragora (_Atropa mand...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 7:1 HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THY FEET IN SANDALS, O PRINCE'S DAUGHTER! THE JOINTS OF THY THIGHS ARE LIKE JEWELS, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF A CUNNING WORKMAN. To the ladies who are...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the daughters of Jerusalem address themselves to the Shulamite and they say, How beautiful are thy feet with shoes (Song of Solomon 7:1), Or within thy sandals. O prince's daughter! the joints o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Acts 16:30; Acts 2:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy mouth — Thy speech, the palate being one of the principal instruments of speech. Wine — Grateful and refreshing for thee my beloved, who reapest the comfort and benefit of that pleasure which I ta...

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