Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Navel - rather, girdle-clasp, called from the part of the person underneath. The "shoes" (Song of Solomon 7:1) prove that dress is throughout presupposed on all parts where it is usually worn. She is "a bride adorned for her husband;" the "uncomely parts" being most adorned (1 Corinthians 12:23).
A round goblet. The girdle-clasp was adorned with red rubies resembling the "round goblet" (crater or mixer) of spice-mixed wine (not "liquor") (Song of Solomon 8:2; Isaiah 5:22). The wine of the "New Testament in His blood." The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Acts 2:13-17).
Belly - i:e., the vesture on it. As in Psalms 45:13-14, "clothing of worked gold and raiment of needlework" compose the bride's attire, so golden-coloured "wheat" and white "lilies" here. The ripe grain, in token of harvest joy, used to be decorated with lilies; so the accumulated spiritual food, the "bread of life" produced from Jesus, the "corn of wheat" falling into the ground and dying, and so bringing forth much fruit, is free from chaff, and is not fenced with thorns, but made attractive by lilies set about it-i.e, (Song of Solomon 2:2), believers, who in common partake of it. Associated with the exhilarating wine-cup (Zechariah 9:17), as here.