Song of Solomon 4:2
1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- KJV
- Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
- WEB
- Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
- ASV
- Thy teeth are like a flock [of ewes] that are [newly] shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.
- DARBY
- Thy teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.
- BLB
- Your teeth [are] like a flock shorn, having come up from the washing, all of which have twins, and there is not a bereaved one among them.
- ÅB
- Dine tenner er som en flokk av klippte sauer som stiger opp av badet; alle har de tvillinger, og intet blant dem er uten lam.
- OTB
- Dine tenner er som en flokk med nyklipte sauer Som har kommet opp fra vasken, Alle bærer tvillinger, Og ikke én blant dem har mistet sine lam.
- B1930
- Dine tenner er som en hjord av klippede får som stiger op av badet; alle har de tvillinger, og intet blandt dem er uten lam.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 6:6
Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Read in contextColossians 1:4–6
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
Read in context2 Peter 1:5–8
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:13–14
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Read in contextJohn 15:7
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Read in contextExodus 23:26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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