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| 1 As the chorus of 'Mahanaim.' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides [are] as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer. |
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| 2 Thy waist [is] a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies, |
Of wheat – True children of the Kingdom. C140
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| 3 Thy two breasts as two young ones, twins of a roe, |
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| 4 Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus, |
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| 5 Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings! |
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| 6 How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights. |
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| 7 This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters. |
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| 8 I said, 'Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons, |
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| 9 And thy palate as the good wine ' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged! |
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| 10 I [am] my beloved's, and on me [is] his desire. |
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| 11 Come, my beloved, we go forth to the field, |
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| 12 We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves; |
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 mandrakes have given fragrance, And at our openings all pleasant things, New, yea, old, my beloved, I laid up for thee! |
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