Song of Solomon 4:3
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.
2 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.
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
- ASV
- Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.
- DARBY
- Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely; As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.
- BLB
- Like a thread of scarlet [are] your lips, and your mouth is lovely. Like the halves of the pomegranate [is] your temple, behind your veil.
- ÅB
- Dine lepper er som en skarlagensnor, og din munn er yndig; som et stykke granateple er din tinning bak ditt slør.
- OTB
- Dine lepper er som en skarlagensrød tråd, Og din munn er herlig. Dine tinninger er som et stykke av et granateple Bak ditt slør.
- B1930
- Dine leber er som en skarlagensnor, og din munn er yndig; som et stykke granateple er din tinning bak ditt slør.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Song of Solomon 6:7
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Read in contextJoshua 2:18
unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
Read in contextPsalms 119:13
With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
Read in contextProverbs 10:20–21
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
Read in contextHebrews 9:19
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
Read in contextSong of Solomon 4:11
Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
Read in contextColossians 3:16–17
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
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