9Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.


In Context

6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

7 This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

8 I said, |I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.| Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved

9 Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

10 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.

Song of Solomon 7:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:9and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:9Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And thy mouth like the best wine, that goeth down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9And thy palate as the good wine — 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!