Song of Solomon 1:15
13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
- KJV
- Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
- WEB
- Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.
- ASV
- Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves.
- DARBY
- Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.
- BLB
- Behold, you [are] beautiful, my darling, behold, you [are] beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
- ÅB
- Hvor fager du er, min venninne, hvor fager du er! Dine øyne er duer.
- OTB
- Hvor vakker du er, min kjære, Hvor vakker du er! Dine øyne ligner duer.
- B1930
- Hvor fager du er, min venninne, hvor fager du er! Dine øine er duer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 4:1
How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:12
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:7
You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
Read in contextEphesians 1:17–18
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:2–3
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 6:4
You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Read in contextMalachi 2:14
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
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