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| 1 How beautiful, are thy feet in sandals, O daughter of a noble,–The curvings of thy hips, are like ornaments wrought by the hands of a skilled workman: |
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| 2 Thy navel, is a round bowl, may it not lack spiced wine! Thy body, a heap of wheat fenced about with lilies; |
Of wheat – True children of the Kingdom. C140
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| 3 Thy two breasts, are like two young roes, the twins of a gazelle: |
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| 4 Thy neck, is like a tower of ivory,–Thine eyes, are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim, Thy nose, is like the tower of Lebanon, which looketh towards Damascus: |
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| 5 Thy head upon thee, is like Carmel, And, the hair of thy head, is like purple,–The king, is held captive by the ringlets! |
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| 6 [HE] How beautiful, and how delightful, O dear love, for delights: |
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| 7 This thy stature, is like to a palm-tree, and, thy breasts, are like clusters: |
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| 8 I said, I will ascend the palm-tree, I will lay hold of its fruit stalks–Oh then, let thy breasts, I pray thee, be like vine-clusters, And, the fragrance of thy nose, like apples; |
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| 9 And, thy mouth, like good wine–[SHE] Flowing to my beloved smoothly, gliding over the lips of the sleeping. |
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| 10 I, am my beloved's, and, unto me, is his longing. |
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| 11 Come, my beloved, Let us go forth into the country, Let us stay the night in the villages: |
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| 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, Let us see whether the vine, hath burst forth, the blossom, hath opened, the pomegranates, have bloomed,–There, will I give my caresses to thee. |
The tender grape – Symbol of mature fruits of character, marked by tenderness. E206; R1317:5*
The pomegranates – Symbol of the fruitage of Christ's redemptive work. T30
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| 13 The love-apples, have given fragrance, and, at our openings, are all precious things, new and yet old,–O my beloved! I have treasured them up for thee. |
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