Admiration by the Bridegroom
“How beautiful are your feet in sandals,O aprince’s daughter!The curves of your hips are like jewels,The work of the hands of an artist.Ps 45:132 “Your navel is a round gobletWhich never lacks mixed wine.Your belly is like a heap of wheatSurrounded with lilies.3 “Your atwo breasts are like two fawns,The twins of a gazelle.Song 4:54 “Your aneck is like a tower of ivory,Your eyes the sparkling pools of bHeshbonBy the gate of Bath-rabbim.Your nose is like the tower of LebanonWhich looks toward Damascus.Song 4:4Num 21:265 “Your head crowns you like Mount aCarmel,And the flowing hair of your head like purple threads;I, the king, am held captive by your 1tresses.I.e. the long, unbound hair of a woman.Is 35:26 “How abeautiful and how delightful you are,My love, with all your delights!Song 1:15, 16; 4:107 “Your stature is like that of a palm treeAnd your breasts like its clusters of dates.8 “I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;I will grasp its branches.Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,And the fragrance of your breath like aapples,Song 2:59 And your akisses like the best wine!’”(The Shulammite Bride)“It bgoes down smoothly and sweetly for my beloved,Gliding gently over his lips while he sleeps.Song 5:16Prov 23:31
The Union of Love
10 “aI am my beloved’s,And his bdesire is for me. John 10:28Song 2:16; 6:3Ps 45:11; Gal 2:2011 “Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,Let us spend the night in the villages. Luke 14:3312 “Let us go out early to the vineyards;Let us asee whether the vine has buddedAnd its blossoms have opened,And whether the pomegranates have flowered.There I will give you my love.Song 6:1113 “The amandrakes give forth fragrance,And over our doors are all kinds of bchoice fruits,Both new and old,Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.Gen 30:14Song 2:3; 4:13, 16; Matt 13:52