Song of Songs 4
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Song of Songs 4
The Young Woman’s Beauty Extolled
1 #
Song 1.15; 5.12; 6.5, 7 How beautiful you are, my love,
how very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats,
moving down the slopes of Gilead.
2 #
Song 6.6
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
and not one among them is bereaved.
3 #
Song 6.7
Your lips are like a crimson thread,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
4 #
Neh 3.19; Song 7.4 Your neck is like the tower of David,
built in courses;
on it hang a thousand bucklers,
all of them shields of warriors.
5 #
Song 2.16; 6.2, 3; 7.3 Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,
that feed among the lilies.
6 #
v 14
; Song 2.17Until the day breathes
and the shadows flee,
I will hasten to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.
7 #
Song 1.15
You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.
8 #
Deut 3.9; Song 5.1 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;
come with me from Lebanon.
Depart#4.8 Or Look from the peak of Amana,
from the peak of Senir and Hermon,
from the dens of lions,
from the mountains of leopards.
9 #
vv 10, 12
; Prov 1.9; Ezek 16.11You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride;
you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.
10 #
Song 1.2–4
How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine
and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
11 #
Gen 27.27; Prov 5.3; 24.13; Hos 14.6 Your lips distill nectar, my bride;
honey and milk are under your tongue;
the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.
12 #
Gen 29.3; Prov 5.15–18 A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
a garden#4.12 Heb mss Gk Vg Syr: MT heap of stones locked, a fountain sealed.
13 #
v 16
; Eccl 2.5; Song 1.14; 6.11; 7.12Your channel#4.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain is an orchard of pomegranates
with all choicest fruits,
henna with nard,
14 #
v 6
; Ex 30.23; Song 1.12; 3.6; Jn 19.39nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all chief spices—
15 #
Jn 4.10; 7.38 a garden fountain, a well of living water,
and flowing streams from Lebanon.
16 #
Song 5.1; 6.2 Awake, O north wind,
and come, O south wind!
Blow upon my garden
that its fragrance may be wafted abroad.
Let my beloved come to his garden
that he may eat its choicest fruits.
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