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title: "An Exposition of the Book of Solomon's Song"
author: "John Gill"
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# An Exposition of the Book of Solomon's Song

*John Gill*

A Baptist divine's verse-by-verse reading of the Song of Songs, first printed in 1776.

## 78. Chapter 7

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-gill-exposition-song-of-solomon/78/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-gill-exposition-song-of-solomon/78/#p-N

[¶0] In this chapter Christ gives a fresh commendation of the beauty of his church, in a different order and method than before: beginning with her feet, and so rising gradually upwards to the hair of her head, and to the roof of her mouth, verses 1-9. And then the church asserts her interest in him; and declares his desire towards her, verse 10 and invites him to go with her into the fields, villages, and vineyards; and offers various reasons, by which she urges him to a compliance with her invitation, verses 1-3

[¶1] Verse 1.

[¶2] How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

[¶3] Verse 2.

[¶4] Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

[¶5] Verse 3.

[¶6] Thy two breasts are like two young roes, that are twins.

[¶7] Verse 4.

[¶8] Thy neck is as a tower of ivory: thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Ode Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.

[¶9] VERSE 5

[¶10] Former Part.

[¶11] Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple—

[¶12] Verse 5.

[¶13] Latter Part.

[¶14] —The king is held in the galleries.

[¶15] Verse 6.

[¶16] How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights?

[¶17] Verse 7.

[¶18] This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

[¶19] Verse 8.

[¶20] I said I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.

[¶21] Verse 9.

[¶22] And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep, to speak.

[¶23] Verse 10.

[¶24] I am my beloved’s, and his desire is towards me.

[¶25] Verse 11.

[¶26] Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field: let us lodge in the villages.

[¶27] Verse 12.

[¶28] Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish; whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

[¶29] Verse 13.

[¶30] The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old; which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.