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Song of Solomon 7:10

I belong to my lover, and he wants me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Church, the;   Union with Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Song of songs;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Desire;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Song of Songs;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Song of Solomon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Vine;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benveniste;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 13;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am my love’s,and his desire is for me.
Hebrew Names Version
I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
King James Version
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
English Standard Version
I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
New American Standard Bible
"I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.
New Century Version
I belong to my lover, and he desires only me.
Amplified Bible
"I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.
World English Bible
I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am my welbeloueds, and his desire is toward mee.
Legacy Standard Bible
"I am my beloved's,And his desire is for me.
Berean Standard Bible
I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Contemporary English Version
She Speaks: My darling, I am yours, and you desire me.
Complete Jewish Bible
and your mouth like the finest wine.

[She]

May the wine go straight to the man I love and gently move the lips of those who are asleep.
Darby Translation
I am my beloved's, And his desire is toward me.
George Lamsa Translation
I am my beloveds, and his desire is toward me.
Good News Translation
I belong to my lover, and he desires me.
Lexham English Bible
I belong to my beloved, and he desires me!
Literal Translation
I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There wil I turne me vnto my loue, and he shal turne him vnto me.
American Standard Version
I am my beloved's; And his desire is toward me.
Bible in Basic English
I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'
King James Version (1611)
I am my beloueds, and his desire is towards me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am my beloueds, and he shall turne hym vnto me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am my kinsman’s, and his desire is toward me.
English Revised Version
I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal cleue by loue to my derlyng, and his turnyng schal be to me.
Update Bible Version
I am my beloved's; And his desire is toward me.
Webster's Bible Translation
I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] towards me.
New English Translation

The Beloved about Her Lover:

I am my beloved's, and he desires me!
New King James Version
I am my beloved's, And his desire is toward me.
New Living Translation
I am my lover's, and he claims me as his own.
New Life Bible
"I am my love's, and he wants me.
New Revised Standard
I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, am my beloved's, and, unto me, is his longing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.
Revised Standard Version
I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
Young's Literal Translation
I [am] my beloved's, and on me [is] his desire.
THE MESSAGE
class="poetry"> Shapely and graceful your sandaled feet, and queenly your movement— Your limbs are lithe and elegant, the work of a master artist. Your body is a chalice, wine-filled. Your skin is silken and tawny like a field of wheat touched by the breeze. Your breasts are like fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is carved ivory, curved and slender. Your eyes are wells of light, deep with mystery. Quintessentially feminine! Your profile turns all heads, commanding attention. The feelings I get when I see the high mountain ranges —stirrings of desire, longings for the heights— Remind me of you, and I'm spoiled for anyone else! Your beauty, within and without, is absolute, dear lover, close companion. You are tall and supple, like the palm tree, and your full breasts are like sweet clusters of dates. I say, "I'm going to climb that palm tree! I'm going to caress its fruit!" Oh yes! Your breasts will be clusters of sweet fruit to me, Your breath clean and cool like fresh mint, your tongue and lips like the best wine.

The Woman

Yes, and yours are, too—my love's kisses flow from his lips to mine. I am my lover's. I'm all he wants. I'm all the world to him! Come, dear lover— let's tramp through the countryside. Let's sleep at some wayside inn, then rise early and listen to bird-song. Let's look for wildflowers in bloom, blackberry bushes blossoming white, Fruit trees festooned with cascading flowers. And there I'll give myself to you, my love to your love! Love-apples drench us with fragrance, fertility surrounds, suffuses us, Fruits fresh and preserved that I've kept and saved just for you, my love.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.

Contextual Overview

10 I belong to my lover, and he wants me. 11 Come, my lover, let's go out into the field; let's spend the night in the villages. 12 Let's get up early and go to the vineyards. Let's see if the vines are in bloom. Let's see if the blossoms have opened and if the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. 13 Smell the mandrakes and all the pleasant flowers by our door. I have saved many pleasant things for you, my lover, pleasant things, new and old.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my: Song of Solomon 2:16, Song of Solomon 6:3, Acts 27:23, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 6:20, Galatians 2:20

his: Song of Solomon 7:5, Song of Solomon 7:6, Job 14:15, Psalms 45:11, Psalms 147:11, John 17:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 16:3 - in whom Song of Solomon 4:9 - thou hast Ezekiel 24:16 - the desire Daniel 9:23 - greatly beloved Daniel 10:11 - greatly beloved Daniel 11:37 - the desire

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made."
Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for 40 days. The water began rising and lifted the boat off the ground.
Genesis 7:20
The water continued to rise above the mountains. The water was more than 20 feet above the highest mountain.
Job 22:16
They were destroyed before it was their time to die. They were washed away by the flood.
Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] my beloved's,.... These are the words of the church, strongly expressing the assurance of faith she had of her union to Christ, and interest in him; which shows that "that" grace is attainable, and that there may be a continuation of the exercise of it; it may be expressed again and again, as it is by the church in this Song, Song of Solomon 2:16; and that the exercise of it often follows, upon the enjoyment of Christ's presence, as here, upon his going tap to the palm tree; and that this grace has no tendency to licentiousness, but excites to duty, and makes more careful in it, of which Song of Solomon 7:11 is a proof, "Come, let us go forth", c. Moreover, these words may be considered as a modest acknowledgment of the church's, that all she were and had were Christ's, and came from him all the beauty he had commended in her; all fruitfulness in grace, and strength in the exercise of it; her light and knowledge in divine truths; her zeal and courage to defend them; her upright stature, and holy walk and conversation, and every good thing else, were owing to his grace. And here she also makes a voluntary surrender of all to him again; as she received all from him, she devotes all to him:

and his desire [is] towards me; and only to her, as his spouse and bride: it was towards her from everlasting, when he asked her of his Father, and he gave her to him; and so it was in time, to procure her salvation; hence he became incarnate, and suffered and died in her stead: his desire is towards his people before conversion, waiting to be gracious to them; and, after conversion, to have their company, and their grace exercised on him, and to behold their beauty; nor will his desires be fully satisfied until he has got them all with him in glory. And this phrase not only signifies the conjugal relation of the church to Christ, he being her husband, and she his wife, the desire of his eyes, as a wife is called, Ezekiel 24:16; but takes in the whole care and concern of Christ for her, as her husband; who sympathizes with her under all her distresses; protects her from all dangers and enemies; and provides everything necessary for her, for time and eternity. Some render the words, "seeing his desire is towards me" b; therefore she expresses her faith in him, and gives up herself to him.

b So Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

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 10. I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. — It is worthy of remark that the word which we translate his desire is the very same used Genesis 3:16: Thy desire, thy ruling appetite, תשוקתך teshukathech, shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. This was a part of the woman's curse. Now here it seems to be reversed; for the bride says, I am my beloved's, and his desire or ruling appetite and affection, תשוקתו teshukatho, is עלי ali, UPON ME. The old MS. translates this with considerable force:-I to my leef, and to me the turnynge of him.


 
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