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Your body is like a round goblet, No mingled wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, Set about with lilies.
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Images of Fullness & Beauty
The lover's praise uses rich agricultural imagery. Commentators explain that the 'round goblet' full of wine suggests perfection and life, while the 'heap of wheat' was a culturally beautiful image in the ancient Near East, associated with a desirable skin tone and the joy of a plentiful harvest. The surrounding lilies add a sense of delicate beauty.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Or, “Your lap is like a moon-shaped bowl where mixed wine never fails.” The wine in the bowl rising to the brim adds to the beauty of the vessel an…
19th Century
Anglican
Heap of wheat surrounded by lilies. — Wetstein (quoted by Delitzsch in his Appendix) remarks that in Syria the colour of wheat is …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your navel [is like] a round goblet According to some, not the navel itself is meant; but a covering of it, a jewel …
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