Song of Songs 7

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  • 7:2 Your navel is a rounded bowl; may it never lack spiced wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat bordered with lilies. 1
  • 7:4 Your neck is like an ivory tower; your eyes are the pools of Heshbon beside the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like Lebanon's tower that looks out toward Damascus. 1
  • 7:6 How beautiful and how pleasing you are, love, with all your delights! 1
  • 7:7 You are as tall as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. 1
  • 7:9 and your mouth like the finest wine, flowing smoothly to my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who sleep. 1
  • 7:10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. 1
  • 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country and spend the night in the villages. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Cant. 7:2

    …Again, the very same thing is represented by Christ, in his description of his spouse, Cant. 7:2: “Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.” Here again are beautiful…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites Song 7:4

    …at heart, and melt in one’s spirit, until one’s eyes become as the fish-pools in Heshbon. Song 7:4. They that go rightly through this valley of Baca, make it a well; the rain that God…

  3. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song vii. 6

    …for He still exclaims, “How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!” (Sol. Song vii. 6.) Let us remember that He who pronounces the Church and each individual believer to be…

  4. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Chief End cites Cant 7:7

    …The spouse’s breasts are compared to clusters of grapes, to show how fertile she was. Cant 7:7. Though the lowest degree of grace may bring salvation to you, yet it will not bring much…

  5. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites Song 7:9

    …vineyards, “to go down so sweetly as to cause the lips of them that are asleep to speak.” Song 7:9. So I saw that when they awoke, they addressed themselves to go up to the city. But, as I…

  6. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites Cant. vii. 10

    …give thee refreshment,” Matt. xi. 28. Upon this invitation, the spouse boldly concludes, Cant. vii. 10, that the desire of Christ is towards her; that he doth indeed love her, and aim at…

  7. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion cites Cant. 7:11

    …spouse, away from the world, into retired places, that he may give her his sweetest love: Cant. 7:11, 12, “Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages…