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“We have a little sister too young for breasts. What shall we do if someone asks to marry her?”

King Solomon: “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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Song of Solomon 8:10 I am slim, tall, literally, “I am as a wall.” full-breasted, literally, “my breasts are as towers.”

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