The Song Of Songs - Chapter 7 – The Passion Of God Revealed Series

V.7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels,

the work of a master hand.

2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

6 How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!

7 Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

9 and your mouth like the best wine.

She

It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.

10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

11 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;

12 let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

Review - The Bride is now ready to serve. With the Beloved’s heart filled with joyful anticipation, He describes features of the Bride that have not been considered before. The Bride is completely convinced that His desire is for her good only, and she acts upon that revelation, suggesting they go out into the villages and country and minister to the people.

What the Beloved had so desired from her in chapter two ("come away"), she initiates! She has the mind of her Beloved and is ready to disciple others with Him. The symbolism of the feet and nose is very significant. Never before had He described them. All of this leads to her new walk of ministry, which is the Bride’s crowning moment while living in this dark wilderness scene. A path of service has opened to her and a spiritual intimacy seldom experienced by the average Christian.

As they walk hand in hand in His garden (V.6:11), the Beloved's heart continues to be filled with glorious joy. Thoughtfully, he pauses for a moment, admiring her feet, and then shares...

Now comes the description of the Bride, who is the Army of the Beloved. Throughout this description, we see that she is no longer living for her pleasure but for His pleasure alone.

V7:1a – "How beautiful”

A. Her success in winning people to the Beloved impacts the daughters. The first answer they give the sarcastic leaders is, “How beautiful.” In other words, the daughters like her. They stand their ground, “She is beautiful.” There is no political spirit. We think that what she is doing is wonderful. It is bearing great fruit in our lives.” God raised a people that would stand with this persecuted Bride.

1. Throughout the SONG, the Beloved begins His affirmation of the Bride with acclamations of her beauty. Therefore, the daughters of Jerusalem imitate His style of relating by first noting her beauty before they speak of her characteristics.

V7:1b - "Are your feet”

A. The Beloved starts at her head and goes down. The others start at the feet and go up because the Beloved is from the heavenlies looking down. The people touch salvation first; therefore, they first notice the feet because that is what first touched their lives. They look more from an Earthly point of view, and the Beloved looks from the heavenly.

B. The Apostle Paul allegorically describes our feet as shod by the preparation of the Gospel (Ephesians 6:15). Her feet bring the Good News to other places. "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news" (Isaiah 52:7). The place our feet walk also speaks of our inheritance (Joshua 1:3).

V7:1c -. "In sandals"

A. Sandals speak of prosperity, honor, and preparation (Luke 15:22). Her feet do not lack shoes as a beggar's feet do, which was very common in the ancient world. The soldiers and the aristocrats did, but the common folks did not have shoes. Bare feet speak symbolically of shame, poverty, and humiliation. When the Lord honors the prodigal son, He puts shoes on His feet. It is the opposite of poverty and shame.