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Your head crowns you like Carmel,
    and your flowing locks are like purple;
    a king is held captive in the tresses.[a]

How fair and pleasant you are,
    O loved one, delectable maiden![b]
You are stately[c] as a palm tree,
    and your breasts are like its clusters.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:5 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Song of Solomon 7:6 Syr: Heb in delights
  3. Song of Solomon 7:7 Heb This your stature is

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.(A)
    Your hair is like royal tapestry;
    the king is held captive by its tresses.
How beautiful(B) you are and how pleasing,
    my love, with your delights!(C)
Your stature is like that of the palm,
    and your breasts(D) like clusters of fruit.

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Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

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