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Song of Solomon 7:3

7:2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. liquor: Heb. mixture
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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.

What does Song of Solomon 7:3 mean?

Song of Solomon 7:3 is a verse in the book of Song of Solomon, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include שְׁנַיִם (shᵉnayim), שַׁד (shad), עֹפֶר (ʻôpher). It connects to 5 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

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Thy
twoשְׁנַיִםshᵉnayim/shen-ah'-yim/H8147two; also (as ordinal) twofold
breastsשַׁדshad/shad/H7699the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
are
like
twoשְׁנַיִםshᵉnayim/shen-ah'-yim/H8147two; also (as ordinal) twofold
youngעֹפֶרʻôpher/o'-fer/H6082a fawn (from the dusty color)
roesצְבִיָּהtsᵉbîyâh/tseb-ee-yaw'/H6646a female gazelle
that
are
twins.תָּאוֹםtâʼôwm/taw-ome'/H8380a twin (in plural only), literally or figuratively

Commentary on Song of Solomon 7:3

HENRY_FULL · Song of Solomon 7:2–3
: They draw nigh, nigher than they were; so that they got ground of him. They were at his heels, just upon his back. God sometimes suffers persecutors to prevail very far against his people, so that, as David said ( 1 Sam. xx. 3 ), There is but a step between them and death. Perhaps this comes in here as a reason why David was so earnest in prayer, v. 149 . God brings us into imminent perils, as he did Jacob, that, like him, we may wrestle for a blessing. II. The assurance David had of protection with God: " They draw nigh to destroy me, but thou art near, O Lord! to save me, not only mightier than they and therefore able to help me against them, but nearer than they and therefore ready to help." It is the happiness of the saints that, when trouble is near, God is near, and no trouble can separate between them and him. He is never far to seek, but he is within our call, and means are within his call, Deut. iv. 7 . All thy commandments are truth. The enemies thought to defeat the promises God had made to David, but he was sure it was out of their power; they were inviolably true, and would be infallibly performed. 152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. This confirms what he had said in the close of the foregoing verses, All thy commandments are truth; he means the covenant, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations. This is firm, as true as truth itself. For, 1. God has founded it so; he has framed it for a perpetuity. Such is the constitution of it, and so well ordered is it in all things, that it cannot but be sure. The promises are founded for ever, so that when heaven and earth shall have passed away every iota and tittle of the promise shall stand firm, 2 Cor. i. 20 . 2. David had found it so, both by a work of God's grace upon his heart (begetting in him a full persuasion of the truth of God's word and enabling him to rely upon it with a full satisfaction) and by the works of his providence on his behalf, fulfilling the promise beyond what he

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Exodus 3:7

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Exodus 3:8

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Nehemiah 9:32

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. trouble: Heb. weariness that: Heb. that hath found us

Lamentations 2:20

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? of a span: or, swaddled with their hands?

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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Song of Solomon 4:5

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

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What does Song of Solomon 7:3 say?

Song of Solomon 7:3 (King James Version) reads: "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins."

Is Song of Solomon 7:3 in the Old or New Testament?

Song of Solomon 7:3 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Song of Solomon.

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