Songs 7:9
Good News Translation
and your mouth like the finest wine. Then let the wine flow straight to my lover, flowing over his lips and teeth.

New Revised Standard Version
and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

Contemporary English Version
Kissing you is more delicious than drinking the finest wine. How wonderful and tasty!

New American Bible
And your mouth like the best wine— that flows down smoothly for my lover, gliding over my lips and teeth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

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

the roof

Songs 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Songs 5:16 His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Proverbs 16:29 An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good.

Colossians 3:16,17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. . . .

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

the best

Isaiah 62:8,9 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. . . .

Zechariah 9:15-17 The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar. . . .

Acts 2:11-13,46,47 Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. . . .

Acts 4:31,32 And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were assembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke the word of God with confidence. . . .

Acts 16:30-34 And bringing them out, he said: Masters, what must I do, that I may be saved? . . .

sweetly

Songs 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Thessalonians 4:13,14 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

Context
Admiration by the Bridegroom
8I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples. 9Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.10I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:31
Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,

Songs 5:16
His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Songs 7:8
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