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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 的 口 如 上 好 的 酒 。 （ 新 娘 ） 女 子 说 ： 为 我 的 良 人 下 咽 舒 畅 ， 流 入 睡 觉 人 的 嘴 中 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Your feet are beautiful in sandals, you daughter of a prince. Your round thighs are like jewels shaped by an artist. ² Your navel is like a round drinking cup always filled with wine. Your stomach is like a pile of wheat surrounded with lilies. ³ Your breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle. ⁴ Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon near the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the mountain of Lebanon that looks down on Damascus. ⁵ Your head is like Mount Carmel, and your hair is like purple cloth; the king is captured in its folds. ⁶ You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of delights. ⁷ You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit. ⁸ I said, "I will climb up the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like bunches of grapes, the smell of your breath like apples, ⁹ and your mouth like the best wine. Let this wine go down sweetly for my lover; may it flow gently past the lips and teeth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the roof: Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 5:16, Proverbs 16:24, Ephesians 4:29, Colossians 3:16, Colossians 3:17, Colossians 4:6, Hebrews 13:15

the best: Isaiah 62:8, Isaiah 62:9, Zechariah 9:15-17, Acts 2:11-13, Acts 2:46, Acts 2:47, Acts 4:31, Acts 4:32, Acts 16:30-34

sweetly: Heb. straightly

those that are asleep: or, the ancient, Song of Solomon 5:2, Romans 13:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, Revelation 14:13

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:2 - thy love Song of Solomon 4:3 - lips Song of Solomon 4:11 - lips Song of Solomon 8:2 - I would cause Isaiah 32:4 - the tongue Zechariah 9:17 - cheerful Matthew 26:27 - Drink Acts 2:13 - These Ephesians 5:18 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.

Genesis 7:9
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.

Genesis 7:12
The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16
One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.

Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace. Lions will eat hay like oxen, and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone. They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain," says the Lord .

Jeremiah 8:7
Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don't know what the Lord wants them to do.

Galatians 3:28
In Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek, slave and free person, male and female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:11
In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important.

Gill's Notes on the 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; or her breath, sweet and of a good smell, like the best wine; the breathings of her soul in prayer, which are sweet odours, perfumed with the incense of Christ's mediation; or rather her speech, the words of her mouth; the roof of the mouth being an instrument of speech; the same word is sometimes rendered "the mouth", Song of Solomon 5:16; and may denote both her speech in common conversation, which is warming, refreshing, comforting, and quickening; and in prayer and praise, which is well pleasing and delightful to Christ; and especially the Gospel preached by her ministers, comparable to the best wine for its antiquity, being an ancient Gospel; for its purity, unadulterated, and free from mixture, and as faithfully dispensed; its delight, flavour, and taste, to such who have their spiritual senses exercised; and for its cheering, refreshing, and strengthening nature, to drooping weary souls. It follows,

for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly; is received and taken down with all readiness, by those who have once tasted the sweetness and felt the power of it. Or, "that goeth to righteousnesses" t; leading to the righteousness of Christ for justification, and teaching to live soberly and righteously: or, "that goeth to my beloved, straightway" or "directly" u; meaning either to his Father, Christ calls his beloved, to whose love the Gospel leads and directs souls, as in a straight line, as to the source of salvation, and all the blessings of grace; or to himself, by a "mimesis", whom the church calls so; the Gospel leading souls directly to him, his person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, for peace, pardon, justification, and atonement: or, "that goeth to my beloved to uprightnesses" w; that is, to the church, who is Christ's beloved, consisting of upright men in heart and life, whom Christ calls his beloved and his friends, Song of Solomon 5:1; and whom Christ treats with his best wine, his Gospel; and which is designed for them, their pleasure, profit, comfort, and establishment:

causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak; either such who are in the dead sleep of sin; who, when the Gospel comes with power, are quickened by it; and it produces in them humble confessions of sin; causes them to speak in praise of Christ, and his grace, and of the salvation which he has procured for lost sinners; it brings them to Zion, to declare what great things God has done for them: or else drowsy professors, in lifeless frames, and much gone back in religion; who, when aroused and quickened by the Gospel, and brought out of their lethargy, are ready to acknowledge their backslidings with shame; to speak meanly and modestly of themselves, and very highly of Christ and his grace, who has healed their backslidings, and still loves them freely; none more ready to exalt and magnify Christ, and speak in praise of what he has done for them. Some render the words, "causing the lips of ancient men to speak" x; whose senses are not so quick, nor they so full of talk, as in their youthful days: wherefore this serves to commend this wine; that it should have such an effect as to invigorate ancient men, and give them a juvenile warmth and sprightliness, and make them loquacious, which is one effect of wine, when freely drunk y; and softens the moroseness of ancient men z: wine is even said to make an ancient man dance a.

t למישרים "ad rectitudines", Montanus; "ad ea quae roetissima sunt", Tigurine version. u "Directe", Mercerus; "rectissime", Brightman. w "Ad rectitudines", i.e. "rectos homines", Marckius, Michaelis. x ישנים "veterum", Pagninus; "antiquorum", Vatablus. y Philoxenus apud Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 2. c. 1. p. 25. Vid. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 38. 1. z Philoxenus apud Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 11. c. 3. p. 463. a Ibid. l. 4. c. 4. p. 134. l. 10. c. 7. p. 428.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Song of Solomon 7:6

A general sentiment.

How fair, and what a charm hast thou,

O love! Among delightsome things!

Compare Song of Solomon 2:7, note; Song of Solomon 8:6-7, note.

Song of Solomon 7:7

This thy stature - The king now addresses the bride, comparing her to palm, vine, and apple-tree for nobility of form and pleasantness of fruit; and the utterances of her mouth to sweetest wine.

Song of Solomon 7:9

For my beloved, that goeth down sweetly - Words of the bride interrupting the king, and finishing his sentence, that goeth smoothly or pleasantly for my beloved. Compare Proverbs 23:31.

Song of Solomon 7:10

His desire is toward me - All his affection has me for its object. The bride proceeds to exercise her power over his loving will.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 wine has a tendency to cause the most backward to speak fluently when taken in moderation; so a sight of thee, and hearing the charms of thy conversation, is sufficient to excite the most taciturn to speak, and even to become eloquent in thy praises.