Song of Songs 7:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:3 : 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • Song 2:5 : 5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
  • Song 4:16-5:1 : 16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits. 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.
  • Jer 32:41 : 41 And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.
  • John 14:21-23 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

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  • Song 7:2-7
    6 verses
    89%

    2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.

    3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.

    4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

    5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

    7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

  • Song 7:9-13
    5 verses
    80%

    9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

    13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

  • Song 4:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

    14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 8:1-5
    5 verses
    76%

    1 Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

    2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

    4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

  • Song 2:3
    76%

    3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

  • Song 6:11
    75%

    11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

  • Song 1:13-14
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    75%

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • Song 4:13
    75%

    13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

  • Song 2:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

  • Hos 14:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

    7 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

  • Prov 7:17
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    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

  • Song 4:8-11
    4 verses
    72%

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

    11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

  • Song 8:14
    72%

    14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

    16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

  • Song 8:10
    72%

    10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

  • Isa 5:1
    72%

    1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

  • Song 1:2
    72%

    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

  • Song 6:7
    71%

    7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.

  • Song 6:5
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    5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

  • Song 2:10
    71%

    10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 4:3
    71%

    3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

  • Song 5:13
    71%

    13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

  • Song 6:2
    71%

    2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

  • Song 1:4
    70%

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • Judg 9:11
    70%

    11 But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?