Your navel is a rounded goblet; It lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
- KJV Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
- BSB Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
- NASB “Your navel is like a round goblet That never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat, Surrounded with lilies.
- NLT Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies.
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Quick answer
Her body and waist are praised with images of abundance a brimming goblet and a heap of wheat ringed with lilies. The imagery conveys fullness, fruitfulness, and beauty.
Overview
Wine and wheat were staples of life and joy, suggesting both delight and nourishment. The lilies frame her beauty with grace and refinement. The frank yet tasteful celebration of the bride's body affirms the goodness of married love, which Scripture honors as God's gift, neither shameful nor merely practical but a source of genuine joy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
- Song 5:14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
- Ps 45:16Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
- Isa 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
- Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
- Prov 3:8It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
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Christ at the center
The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.
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