Song of Solomon 7:2

Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

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KJV

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

ASV

Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

YLT

Thy waist is a basin of roundness, It lacketh not the mixture, Thy body a heap of wheat, fenced with lilies,

DBT

Thy navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;

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His navel is described as a round bowl that never lacks mixed wine, because in all knowledge it is rounded, not lacking in spiritual drink. And his belly is not only nourished by a heap of wheat, that is, by more powerful nourishment of the celestial mystery, but also filled with the sweetness of certain lilies of moral virtue. Hence, she herself is crowned with the blood of Christ as a well-deserving queen, as it is written: And the ornament of her head is as purple.

Ambrose of Milan· Commentary on the Song of Songs, 397patristic

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Thy navel is like a round goblet,.... According to some, not the navel itself is meant; but a covering of it, a jewel or plate of gold in the shape of it; and because the word for "round", in the Chaldee language, signifies the "moon", and so Ben Melech interprets it, some have thought of the "round tire like the moon", Isa 3:18; though that was rather an ornament about the neck.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Thy navel is like a round goblet - This may also refer to some ornamental dress about the loins. These suppositions are rendered very probable from hundreds of the best finished and highly decorated drawings of Asiatic ladies in my own collection, where every thing appears in the drawings, as in nature. A heap of wheat set about with lilies - This is another instance of the same kind. The richly embroidered dresses in the above drawings may amply illustrate this also.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

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Song of Solomon 5:14
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
Proverbs 3:8
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
Psalms 45:16
Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

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About this book

The Meeting of Isaac and Rebekah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Song of Solomon — Love poetry in eight chapters — the Bible's most surprising book. A chiastic structure; a bride and bridegroom alternating in dialogue; and a three-school interpretive tradition the site surfaces without adjudication.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Traditional: Solomon (1:1 ''the song of songs, which is Solomon's''). Critical: the ''of Solomon'' construction allows ''about Solomon'' or ''to Solomon'' and opens the authorship question. Most readings keep the Solomonic association.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 965–930 BC. Critical reading: later editorial compilation.

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Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear…
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Galatians 5:22–23
  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Isaiah 54:5
  For your husband is your Maker— the LORD of Hosts is His name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
- Romans 8:2
  For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Ephesians 5:23–27
  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
Through
Proverbs 3:8
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
leads to
- Proverbs 4:22
  For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- Psalms 147:3
  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Proverbs 16:24
  Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

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