KJV King James Version
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Song of Solomon 7:7
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
WEB World English Bible
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
ASV American Standard Version
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 7
4 Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose [is] as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].
8 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;
9 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.
10 I [am] my beloved’s, and his desire [is] toward me.
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Cross-references
Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Ephesians 3:17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,Song of Solomon 1:13A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.Psalm 92:12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Isaiah 66:10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:Ephesians 4:13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:Song of Solomon 7:8I 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;Song of Solomon 8:8We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins.Jeremiah 10:5They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
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