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Song of Solomon 7:1-13

His Desire Is Toward Me

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His Desire Is Toward Me

Song of Solomon 7:1-13

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This song belongs to the Song of Solomon collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Song of Solomon
Collection
Song of Solomon
Musical styles
World Music
How beautiful your steps within the sandals, Daughter shaped with dignity and grace. Every curve is formed like careful workmanship; Your body holds abundance and delight. Your neck is ivory, your eyes are quiet pools, Your bearing rises like the heights of Carmel. Your hair is royal purple in the sunlight; Even a king is held within its flowing. You rise before me like a living palm tree, And your sweetness gathers like its fruit. How fair and pleasant you are, my love; Desire and beauty meet within your presence. May your kisses flow like excellent wine, Moving gently over sleeping lips. I am my beloved's; His desire is turned toward me. Come, my love, let us go into the country; Let us spend the night among the villages. We will rise early and examine every vineyard, See whether tender grapes and blossoms have appeared. There among the vines I will give you my love; Mandrakes breathe their fragrance by the door. New fruit and old are waiting in our keeping, Treasures I have saved for you alone.

Named in this songCarmel

About the passage

Song of Solomon 7: The woman turns praise into a shared journey

Song Of Solomon 7 begins with another extended portrait, this time rising from the woman's feet upward through jewellery, grain, lilies, young roes, pools, towers, Carmel, and hair that can hold a king captive. The comparisons mix craftsmanship, abundance, landscape, and royal reversal without functioning as anatomical measurements. Admiration then becomes explicit desire through palm, fruit, scent, and wine. Within that flow the woman's own voice emerges, and her declaration develops the book's repeated language of belonging by placing the beloved's desire directly toward her. She then takes the initiative. The invitation to go into fields, villages, and vineyards comes from her, not from the man who issued a similar call earlier in the book. Budding pomegranates, tender grapes, mandrakes, and stored fruit make the countryside a language of expectation, preparation, and a love she intends to give.

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