Song of Solomon 7:7

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

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

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons-

Genesis 7:15
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Proverbs 22:3
The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

Matthew 24:38
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

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.