Song of Songs 4 New International Version
He
4 How beautiful you are, my darling!
Oh, how beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil(A) are doves.(B)
Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from the hills of Gilead.(C)
2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
not one of them is alone.(D)
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
your mouth(E) is lovely.(F)
Your temples behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.(G)
4 Your neck is like the tower(H) of David,
built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(I)
all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your breasts(J) are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle(K)
that browse among the lilies.(L)
6 Until the day breaks
and the shadows flee,(M)
I will go to the mountain of myrrh(N)
and to the hill of incense.
7 You are altogether beautiful,(O) my darling;
there is no flaw(P) in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,(Q)
come with me from Lebanon.
Descend from the crest of Amana,
from the top of Senir,(R) the summit of Hermon,(S)
from the lions’ dens
and the mountain haunts of leopards.
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;(T)
you have stolen my heart
with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.(U)
10 How delightful(V) is your love(W), my sister, my bride!
How much more pleasing is your love than wine,(X)
and the fragrance of your perfume(Y)
more than any spice!
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;
milk and honey are under your tongue.(Z)
The fragrance of your garments
is like the fragrance of Lebanon.(AA)
12 You are a garden(AB) locked up, my sister, my bride;(AC)
you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.(AD)
13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates(AE)
with choice fruits,
with henna(AF) and nard,
14 nard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon,(AG)
with every kind of incense tree,
with myrrh(AH) and aloes(AI)
and all the finest spices.(AJ)
15 You are[b] a garden(AK) fountain,(AL)
a well of flowing water
streaming down from Lebanon.
She
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
- Song of Songs 4:15 Or I am (spoken by She)
Cross references
- Song of Songs 4:1 : S Ge 24:65
- Song of Songs 4:1 : S SS 1:15
- Song of Songs 4:1 : Ge 37:25; Nu 32:1; SS 6:5; Jer 22:6; Mic 7:14
- Song of Songs 4:2 : SS 6:6
- Song of Songs 4:3 : SS 5:16
- Song of Songs 4:3 : S SS 1:5
- Song of Songs 4:3 : SS 6:7
- Song of Songs 4:4 : S Ps 144:12
- Song of Songs 4:4 : Eze 27:10
- Song of Songs 4:5 : SS 7:3
- Song of Songs 4:5 : S Pr 5:19
- Song of Songs 4:5 : S SS 2:16
- Song of Songs 4:6 : SS 2:17
- Song of Songs 4:6 : S SS 3:6
- Song of Songs 4:7 : S SS 1:15
- Song of Songs 4:7 : SS 5:2
- Song of Songs 4:8 : ver 9, 12; SS 5:1
- Song of Songs 4:8 : S Dt 3:9
- Song of Songs 4:8 : S 1Ch 5:23
- Song of Songs 4:9 : S ver 8
- Song of Songs 4:9 : S Ge 41:42; S Ps 73:6
- Song of Songs 4:10 : SS 7:6
- Song of Songs 4:10 : S SS 1:2
- Song of Songs 4:10 : S Jdg 9:13
- Song of Songs 4:10 : ver 16; S Ps 45:8; Isa 57:9
- Song of Songs 4:11 : S Ps 19:10; SS 5:1
- Song of Songs 4:11 : Hos 14:6
- Song of Songs 4:12 : ver 16; SS 5:1; 6:2; Isa 5:7
- Song of Songs 4:12 : S ver 8
- Song of Songs 4:12 : Pr 5:15-18
- Song of Songs 4:13 : SS 7:12
- Song of Songs 4:13 : SS 1:14
- Song of Songs 4:14 : S Ex 30:23
- Song of Songs 4:14 : S SS 3:6
- Song of Songs 4:14 : S Nu 24:6
- Song of Songs 4:14 : SS 1:12
- Song of Songs 4:15 : Isa 27:2; 58:11; Jer 31:12
- Song of Songs 4:15 : Pr 5:18
- Song of Songs 4:16 : S ver 12
- Song of Songs 4:16 : S ver 10
- Song of Songs 4:16 : SS 7:13
- Song of Songs 4:16 : SS 2:3
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