Lingerie, Love and the Bible
Warning!! This post is PG-13. Meant to stir up holy love and not lust!
“How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus. Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses. How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!” Solomon’s Song of Songs 7.
Probably the second spiciest section of Holy Scripture. Profitable for teaching us about love. More specifically a holy Eros love.
Context. They have been married for some time now. They have been apart. The people of Israel have been missing their queen, the most beautiful woman, Naamah. She shows up and the people adore her. She goes home and does her hair in the most beautiful manner thus far and puts on 10th century BCE lingerie. Her husband, king Solomon shows up and he adores her from foot to head. Half-way through him he mentions the beauty of her waistline.
“Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.” Song 7:2
In this post I will answer these three questions.
1 Is this literal or metaphorical?
2 What did this look like?
3 How did she put this on? or in what manner?
4 Why is this in the Bible?
5 How do I apply this in my life?

that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.” Solomon’s song of songs 7:2
1 Is this literal or metaphorical?
In hermeneutics, Bible interpretation, we take it literal unless literal makes no sense.
He says, “Your waist is a mound of wheat…” Clearly this is not literal, and he is mentioning the roundness of her waist. Then he adds, “…encircled by the lilies.” This can easily be taken literally and fits the context. So, the first half of the sentence is metaphorical with a similarity between a mound of wheat and her waist for her waist is not literally a mound of wheat. Then the second half of the compliment is literal. There are real lilies by her waist.
2 What did this look like?
It is very hard to know for 100 % certainty. Therefore, we will think of some possibilities and in my opinion choose the one I think, and you can choose one as well but either way the point is that she loved her husband, missed him and with love, zeal and fervor wanted to make him as happy as possible when he saw her after being away for a while. So, don’t miss the point!!
I will give my first opinion. I believe it looked something like a Hawaiian lei. A Hawaaian lei is either stringed like a funnel or hung from the waist in rows. I think she had them strung like a funnel round about her waist. And according to the text her breasts and navel were showing.
I won’t show her breasts exposed. I’m really trying to keep this PG-13 and I pray the guys looking at this will first think of a loving doe and a graceful dear for they are part of God’s creation that is beautiful reflecting God’s Beauty. Beautiful and lovely. Pray, “May the Lord bless me with a wife that would be happy to do this in the future, Lord willing. ” “Thank you, Lord, for making women beautiful and may lust not be roused in me but rather a beholding of a reflection of your beauty and Glory wherein is the one thing I desire to behold. Don’t look to long! Desire the beauty of your wife not anywhere else.

that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.” Solomon’s song of songs 7:2.
You know, I believe that more men and women would benefit from a clear picture and have it all spelled out clearly rather than be left in the fog.
Strung around the waist like a funnel. This is around the neck but imagine this around the waist. The lilies would be in a line like a funnel round about the waistline or strung facing out. Oh, so beautiful!! The text seems to infer that she is nude except for the lilies she is wearing. How many women do this with fervor?

that never lacks blended wine.
Your waist is a mound of wheat
encircled by lilies.” Solomon’s song of songs 7:2.
Why would a man ever leave a woman who expressed her love like this?

Know would some of you mature holy mothers let me know. would you show this to your coming of age daughter and say something like “God would want you to express your love to your future husband in ways like this. This is reserved for marriage. For now stay pure and chaste and when the time is right, then you will be able to enjoy some of the best things about marriage, but you have to stay pure and not even touch yourself.” The idea is to encourage her to stay pure. I believe is she knew that sex before marriage will hinder the greatest joys of marriage that she would be motivated to stay pure. I’m no father so let me know.

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