Song of Solomon 7:8

I said, I will ascend the palm-tree, I will lay hold of its fruit stalks—Oh then, let thy breasts, I pray thee, be like vine-clusters, And, the fragrance of thy nose, like apples;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

7This thy stature, is like to a palm-tree, and, thy breasts, are like clusters:

9And, thy mouth, like good wine— [SHE] Flowing to my beloved smoothly, gliding over the lips of the sleeping.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:3Like the fragrance of thy precious oils, Oil poured out, is thy name, For this cause, virgins love thee.

Song of Solomon 2:5Sustain me with raisin-cakes, refresh me with apples,—for sick with love, I am.

Jeremiah 32:41And I will rejoice over them, to do them good,—And will plant them in this land in truth, with all my heart and with all my soul.

2 Corinthians 2:14But, unto God, be thanks, who, ever, leadeth us in triumph in the Christ, and, the fragrance of the knowledge of him, maketh manifest, through us, in every place,

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 7:2-10

The Beauty of the Church; The Complacency of Christ in His Church. 1 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. 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the… Read the whole commentary →

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