Song of Solomon 7
What Happens in This Chapter
In this chapter the man praises the woman he loves, describing her from her feet to her hair with pictures of jewels, wheat, towers, and a palm tree. He says he wants to climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit, and he compares her breath to apples and her mouth to the best wine. The woman answers that she belongs to him, and she invites him out to the fields and vineyards, where she has saved good fruits for him.
Plain reading written for kids. Short sentences, everyday words, one idea at a time.
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
1Your feet look beautiful in sandals, daughter of a prince. A prince is a king's son. The curves of your legs are like fine jewels. They look like a skilled artist shaped them.
2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
2Your navel is like a round cup that is always full of wine. Your waist is like a pile of golden wheat with lilies all around it.
The old words "wanteth not liquor" mean the cup never runs out of wine. "Want" used to mean "lack."
3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
3Your two breasts are like two baby deer, twins born together.
4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
4Your neck is like a tower made of smooth white ivory. Your eyes shine like the pools of water in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward the city of Damascus.
5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
5Your head sits high on you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is dark and rich, like purple thread. The king is caught and held by your long hair.
The old words say the king is "held in the galleries." This means her long hair holds him like a rope.
6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
6How lovely you are, my love. How happy you make me.
7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
7You stand tall and straight like a palm tree. Your breasts are like clusters of fruit.
8I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
8I said, I will climb that palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit. Let your breasts be like clusters of grapes. Let your breath smell as sweet as apples.
The old words "the smell of thy nose" mean the smell of her breath.
9And 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.
9Let your mouth taste like the very best wine. It goes down smoothly for the one I love. It even makes sleeping lips move and speak.
10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
10I belong to the one I love. And he wants to be with me.
11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
11Come, my love. Let us go out to the open country. Let us stay the night in the small villages.
12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
12Let us get up early and go to the vineyards. Let us see if the grape vines have new buds. Let us see if the young grapes have opened. Let us see if the pomegranate trees are blooming. There I will give you my love.
13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
13The mandrake plants send out their sweet smell. At our door are all kinds of good fruits. Some are fresh and new, and some are old. I saved them all for you, my love.
Mandrakes are plants with a strong, sweet smell.
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