(KJV) Song of Solomon 71

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Admiration by the Bridegroom

[1] How beautiful are thy feet2 with shoes, O prince’s3 daughter! the joints4 of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work5 of the hands of a cunning workman. [2] Thy navel6 [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor7: thy belly8 [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies. [3] Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.9 [4] Thy neck10 [is] as a tower of ivory11; thine eyes12 [like] the fishpools in Heshbon13, by the gate of Bath–rabbim: thy nose14 [is] as the tower15 of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus16. [5] Thine head17 upon thee [is] like Carmel18, and the hair19 of thine head like purple; the king20 [is] held21 in the galleries. [6] How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!22 [7] This thy stature23 is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts24 to clusters [of grapes]. [8] I said, I will go25 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 smell26 of thy nose like apples; [9] And the roof27 of thy mouth like the best28 wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly29, causing the lips of those that are asleep30 to speak.

The Bride

[10] I [am] my31 beloved’s, and his32 desire [is] toward me. [11] Come, my beloved, let us go33 forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. [12] Let us get34 up early to the vineyards; let us see35 if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender36 grape appear37, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee38 my loves. [13] The mandrakes39 give a smell, and at our40 gates [are] all manner of pleasant [fruits], new41 and old, [which] I have42 laid up for thee, O my beloved.

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  1. Song 7:1, A further description of the church’s graces; Song 7:10, The church professes her faith and desire. 

  2. Luke 15:22; Eph 6:15; Phil 1:27 

  3. Ps 45:13; 2Cor 6:18 

  4. Dan 2:32; Eph 4:15-16; Col 2:19 

  5. Exod 28:15, Exod 35:35 

  6. Prov 3:8 

  7. Heb. mixture 

  8. Song 5:14; Ps 45:16; Isa 46:3; Jer 1:5; Rom 7:4 

  9. Song 4:5, Song 6:6 

  10. Song 1:10, Song 4:4 

  11. Song 5:14; 1Kgs 10:18, 1Kgs 10:22, 1Kgs 22:39; Ps 45:8, Ps 144:12 

  12. That is, "Thine eyes are dark, deep, clear, and serene, as the fish-pools in Heshbon. " Song 4:1, Song 4:9, Song 6:5; Eph 1:17-18, Eph 3:18-19 

  13. Num 21:25; Isa 54:4 

  14. That is, "Thy nose is as finely formed as the tower of Lebanon." Phil 1:9-10; Heb 5:14 

  15. Song 4:8, Song 5:15; 1Kgs 7:2, 1Kgs 9:19; 2Chr 8:6 

  16. Gen 15:2; 2Sam 8:6 

  17. Isa 35:2; Eph 1:22, Eph 4:15-16; Col 1:18, Col 2:19 

  18. or, crimson, Mic 7:14 

  19. Song 4:1, Song 5:11; Rev 1:14 

  20. Song 1:17 *marg. Gen 32:26; Ps 68:24, Ps 87:2; Matt 18:20, Matt 28:20 

  21. Heb. bound 

  22. Song 7:10, Song 1:15-16, Song 2:14, Song 4:7, Song 4:10; Ps 45:11; Isa 62:4-5; Zeph 3:17 

  23. Ps 92:12; Jer 10:5; Eph 4:13 

  24. Song 7:3, Song 7:8, Song 1:13, Song 4:5, Song 8:8; Isa 66:10; Eph 3:17 

  25. Song 4:16, Song 5:1; Jer 32:41; John 14:21-23 

  26. Song 1:3, Song 2:3; 2Cor 2:14 

  27. Song 2:14, Song 5:16; Prov 16:24; Eph 4:29; Col 3:16-17, Col 4:6; Heb 13:15 

  28. Isa 62:8-9; Zech 9:15-17; Acts 2:11-13, Acts 2:46-47, Acts 4:31-32, Acts 16:30-34 

  29. Heb. straightly 

  30. or, the ancient, Song 5:2; Rom 13:11; 1Thess 4:13-14; Rev 14:13 

  31. Song 2:16, Song 6:3; Acts 27:23; 1Cor 6:19-20; Gal 2:20 

  32. Song 7:5-6; Job 14:15; Ps 45:11, Ps 147:11; John 17:24 

  33. Song 1:4, Song 2:10-13, Song 4:8 

  34. Prov 8:17; Eccl 9:10 

  35. Song 6:11; Prov 24:30-31; Acts 15:36; 2Cor 13:5; 1Thess 3:5-6; Heb 12:15 

  36. Song 2:13, Song 2:15; Isa 18:5 

  37. Heb. open 

  38. Song 7:6, Song 4:16; Exod 25:22; Ps 43:4, Ps 63:3-8, Ps 73:25, Ps 122:5; Ezek 20:40-41; Rom 5:11; 2Cor 5:14-15; Eph 6:24; Heb 4:16 

  39. Gen 30:14 

  40. Song 4:16, Song 5:1; John 15:8; Gal 5:22-23; Eph 5:9; Phil 1:11 

  41. Matt 13:52 

  42. Isa 23:18, Isa 60:6-7; Matt 25:40; Rom 15:25-27; 1Cor 2:9, 1Cor 16:2, 1Cor 8:8-9; Col 3:17; 1Pet 4:11