This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
This your stature is like to a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.
This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Like to a palm tree - Which is remarkably straight, taper, and elegant.
And thy breasts to clusters of grapes - Dates are the fruit of the palm tree; they grow in clusters; and it is these, not grapes, which are intended.
This thy stature - The king now addresses the bride, comparing her to palm, vine, and apple-tree for nobility of form and pleasantness of fruit; and the utterances of her mouth to sweetest wine.
7:7 Palm - tree - Tall and strait, or upright. And he seems to mention the palm - tree, rather than any other, because it is constantly green and flourishing, and grows upward in spite of all pressures.