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Chapter 7

How Beautiful You Are and How Charming[a]

Companions:

    [b]Come back, come back, O Shulammite;[c]
    come back so that we may gaze upon you.

Bridegroom:

Why are you looking at the Shulammite
    as at a dance of Mahanaim?

Companions:

How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
    O prince’s daughter.
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
    the handiwork of a master hand.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:1 The chorus sees the bride as resembling Abishag the Shunammite, the exceptionally beautiful girl of whom 1 Ki 1:1-4 speaks. The passionate praise is received by the bride while she dances with joy.
    In the poetic comparison, the terms are taken from the geography of Israel; this is a way of also singing the happiness of the people who rediscover their land. Thus, our chants will exult in the joy of the kingdom of God and the happiness that radiates from the holy city where all will be gathered together.
  2. Song of Songs 7:1 The comparisons have to be understood in the light of Eastern esthetics, and even then they are not always easy to understand.
  3. Song of Songs 7:1 Shulammite: usually interpreted as referring to a woman from Shunem, specifically Abishag the Shunammite (1 Ki 1:1-4).