Song of Solomon 8:9-11

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⁹“If she has no breasts,^[a] we will build upon her a battlement of silver, and if she is a door, we will enclose her with cedar boards.”

The Girl: ¹⁰“I am slim, tall,^[b] and full-breasted, and I have found favor in my lover’s eyes. ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon, which he rented out to some farmers there, the rent being one thousand pieces of silver from each.

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Song of Solomon 8:9 If she has no breasts, literally, “If she be a wall.” build upon her a battlement of silver . . . enclose her with cedar boards, the meaning is obscure.
Song of Solomon 8:10 I am slim, tall, literally, “I am as a wall.” full-breasted, literally, “my breasts are as towers.”