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Song of Songs 7:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Song of Songs 7:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 Your navel is a well-rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a mound of wheat[a]
surrounded by lilies.
4 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
5 Your neck is like an ivory tower;
your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon[b]
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the Tower of Lebanon
that faces toward Damascus.
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 7:3 Wine . . . wheat: symbols of fertility.
- Song of Songs 7:5 Heshbon: a city in the Transjordan blessed with a great supply of spring water. Bath-rabbim: “Daughter of many,” so named perhaps because at that gate people went in crowds for water. Tower of Lebanon: probably the beautiful and towering mountains of Lebanon.
