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THE MESSAGE
Song of Solomon 7:7
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Your stature is like a palm tree;your breasts are clusters of fruit.
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
You are tall like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its bunches of fruit.
"Your stature is like that of a palm tree And your breasts like its clusters [of dates].
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, Your breasts like its fruit.
This thy stature is like a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters.
Your stature is like a palm tree,And your breasts are like its clusters.
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
You are tall and slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are full.
How beautiful you are, my love, how charming, how delightful!
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters.
You are tall— as tall as a palm tree. And your breasts are like the clusters of fruit on that tree.
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of grapes.
You are as graceful as a palm tree, and your breasts are clusters of dates.
Your stature is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters.
Your stature compares to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
Thy stature is like a date tre, and thy brestes like the grapes. I sayde:
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
This thy stature is like to a palme tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Thy stature is lyke a paulme tree, and thy breastes lyke the grapes.
This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
Thi stature is licned to a palm tree, and thi tetis to clustris of grapis.
Your stature is like a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
The Lover to His Beloved:
Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters.
You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
You stand like a palm tree. And your breasts are like its fruit.
You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
This thy stature, is like to a palm-tree, and, thy breasts, are like clusters:
Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.
Contextual Overview
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.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy stature: Psalms 92:12, Jeremiah 10:5, Ephesians 4:13
thy breasts: Song of Solomon 7:3, Song of Solomon 7:8, Song of Solomon 1:13, Song of Solomon 4:5, Song of Solomon 8:8, Isaiah 66:10, Ephesians 3:17
Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 8:10 - my Ezekiel 40:26 - palm trees Joel 1:12 - the pomegranate
Cross-References
"But I'm going to establish a covenant with you: You'll board the ship, and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives will come on board with you. You are also to take two of each living creature, a male and a female, on board the ship, to preserve their lives with you: two of every species of bird, mammal, and reptile—two of everything so as to preserve their lives along with yours. Also get all the food you'll need and store it up for you and them."
Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family—out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship. And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies. They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs—everything and anything that had the breath of life in it, male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.
A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks; a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.
By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This thy stature is like to a palm tree,.... Made up of the above parts commended, and others had in view, as appears from the relative "this". The word for "stature" properly signifies height, tallness, and erectness; and which were reckoned agreeable in women, as well as men; :-; hence methods are often made use of to make them look taller, as by their head dresses, their shoes, and by stretching out their necks, Isaiah 3:16; and the simile of a tree is not an improper one: and so Galatea is, for height and tallness, compared to an alder and to a plane tree h; and Helena, to a cypress tree in a garden i, on the same account; and here the church to a palm tree: the Egyptian palm tree is said to be the best k; and if Solomon here has any reference to Pharaoh's daughter, his wife, he might think of that, which is described
"of body straight, high, round, and slender l,''
and fitly expresses a good shape and stature. The church's stature is no other than the "stature of the fulness of Christ", Ephesians 4:13; which will be attained unto when all the elect are gathered in, and every member joined to the body, and all filled with the gifts and graces of the spirit designed for them, and are grown up to a just proportion in the body; and in such a state Christ seems to view his church, and so commends her by this simile: saints are oftentimes compared to palm trees in Scripture on other accounts; see Psalms 92:12;
and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes]; on a vine which might be planted by and run up upon a palm tree, as Aben Ezra suggests: though rather clusters of dates, the fruit of the palm tree, are designed, since this fruit, as Pliny m observes, grows in clusters; and to clusters of the vine the church's breasts are compared in Song of Solomon 7:8. And by these "breasts" may be meant either the ministers of the Gospel, who communicate the sincere milk of the word to souls; and may be compared to clusters for their numbers, when there is plenty of them, which is a great mercy to the church; and for their unity, likeness, and agreement in their work, in their ministrations, and in the doctrine they preach, though their gifts may be different; or else the two Testaments, full of the milk of the word; and comparable to "clusters" of grapes or dates, because of the many excellent doctrines and precious promises in them; which, when pressed by hearing, reading, meditation, and prayer, yield both delight and nourishment to the souls of men. Some think the two ordinances of the Gospel, baptism and the Lord's supper, are intended, which are breasts of consolation; and, when the presence of Christ, and the manifestations of his love, are enjoyed in them, they afford much pleasure and satisfaction; and as those breasts are full in themselves, they are beautiful in the eye of Christ, and as such commended; Song of Solomon 7:8- :.
h Ovid. Metamorph. l. 13. Fab. 8. i Theocrit. Idyll. 18. v. 30. k A. Gellii Nect. Attic. l. 7. c. 16. Vid. Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 563. l Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 79. m Nat. Hist. l. 13. c. 4.
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 Song of Solomon 7:7. Like to a palm tree — Which is remarkably straight, taper, and elegant.
And thy breasts to clusters of grapes.] Dates are the fruit of the palm tree; they grow in clusters; and it is these, not grapes, which are intended.
