Song of Solomon 7:2
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
This is one of the one thousand and five songs or poems written by Solomon. It is part of an Oriental love poem or parable told as a dialogue between various parties in vivid, warm, figurative language. Its imagery of navel and belly belongs properly to the woman's dress rather than to a description of her body. That bodily imagery gives no cause for objection when read in the setting of the time in which it was written.
The verse contributes to the poem's general picture of chaste affection. That picture portrays Christ's wonderful love for His church and His union with her, she being made up of true believers. It also shows her love in response to Him, though often wanting in faithfulness and constancy. Its details are not each to be given a separate mystical meaning. It is to be read alone with God while keeping that picture of Christ and His church in mind.