Song of Solomon 7:6

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master. ²Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies. ³Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. ⁴Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon facing toward Damascus. ⁵Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses. ⁶How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!⁷Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit. ⁸I said, "I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, ⁹and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 7:10, Song of Solomon 1:15, Song of Solomon 1:16, Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 4:7, Song of Solomon 4:10, Psalms 45:11, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5, Zephaniah 3:17

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:2 - thy love Song of Solomon 4:9 - thou hast Song of Solomon 7:12 - there will I give thee Isaiah 5:7 - his pleasant plant

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 8:13
In Noah's six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the water had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!] These are the words of the King in the galleries, wondering at the church's beauty, it being incomparable and inexpressible, it could not be said well how great it was; and expressing the strength of his love to her, which was invariably the same as ever. Of the "fairness" of the church, and of this title, "love", see Song of Solomon 1:9; and here she is said also to be "pleasant" to him, as his spouse and bride, in whom he takes infinite delight and pleasure, loving her with a love of complacency and delight; and therefore adds, "for delights", which he had in her before the world was, Proverbs 8:31. She was all delight g to him; her words, her actions and gestures, her comely countenance, her sweet and pleasant voice in prayer and praise, her ravishing looks of faith and love, her heavenly airs, and evangelic walk; in all which she appeared beautiful and delightful, beyond all human thought and expression.

g "Meae deliciae", Plauti Stichus, Act. 5. Sc. 5.

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 7:6. How fair and how pleasant — Thou art every way beautiful, and in every respect calculated to inspire pleasure and delight.