Song of Solomon 4
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Christ sets out the graces of the church | ||
| See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead. | Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. | |
Verse 1 WEB Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. KJV 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. TSK thou art fair, my: so 4:9,10, so 1:15, so 2:10,14, ps 45:11, eze 16:14, 2co 3:18; thou hast: so 5:12, mt 11:29, php 2:3-5; thy hair: so 5:11, so 6:5,7, so 7:5; mount: nu 32:1,40 |
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| Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young. | 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. | |
Verse 2 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. 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. TSK teeth: so 6:6, jer 15:16, joh 15:7, col 1:4-6, 1th 2:13, 2pe 1:5-8; and none: ex 23:26, de 7:13,14 |
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| Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil. | Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. | |
Verse 3 WEB Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. 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. TSK lips: so 4:11, so 5:13,16, so 7:9, ps 37:30, ps 45:2, ps 119:13, pr 10:13,20,21, pr 16:21-24, mt 12:35, lu 4:22, 2co 5:18-21, eph 4:29, col 3:16,17, col 4:6; scarlet: le 14:4,6,49-52, nu 4:8, nu 19:6, jos 2:18, pr 31:26, heb 9:19; thy temples: so 6:7, ge 32:10, ezr 9:6, eze 16:63 |
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| Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men. | Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men. | |
Verse 4 WEB Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men. KJV Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. TSK neck: so 1:10, so 7:4, 2sa 22:51, eph 4:15,16, col 2:19, 1pe 1:5; an armoury: ne 3:19; a thousand: 2ch 9:15,16, 2ch 12:9-11 |
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| Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies. | Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies. | |
Verse 5 WEB Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies. KJV Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. TSK two breasts: so 1:13, so 7:3,7, so 8:1,10, pr 5:19, isa 66:10-12, 1pe 2:2; feed: so 2:16, so 6:3 |
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| Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. | Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense. | |
Verse 6 WEB Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense. KJV Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. TSK day: so 2:17, mal 4:2, lu 1:78, 2pe 1:19, 1jo 2:8, re 22:16; the mountain: ex 20:24, ex 30:8,23-26, ex 37:29, de 12:5,6, ps 66:15, isa 2:2, mal 1:11, lu 1:9,10, re 5:8 |
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| You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you. | You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. | |
Verse 7 WEB You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you. KJV Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. TSK Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.: so 4:1, so 5:16, nu 24:5, ps 45:11,13, eph 5:25-27, col 1:22, 2pe 3:14, jude 1:24, re 21:2 |
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Christ's love to the church | ||
| Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards. | Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. | |
Verse 8 WEB Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. KJV Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. TSK with me: so 2:13, so 7:11, ps 45:10, pr 9:6, joh 12:26, col 3:1,2; from Lebanon: de 3:25; Shenir: de 3:9, jos 12:1; from the lions': ps 76:1,4 |
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| You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck! | You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. | |
Verse 9 WEB You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. KJV Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. TSK my sister: so 4:10,12, so 5:1,2, ge 20:12, mt 12:50, 1co 9:5, heb 2:11-14; my spouse: so 3:11, ps 45:9, isa 54:5, isa 62:5, eze 16:8, ho 2:19,20, joh 3:29, 2co 11:2, re 19:7,8, re 21:2,9,10; thou hast: so 6:12, so 7:5,6,10, pr 5:19,20, zep 3:17; with one of: so 1:15, so 6:5; one chain: so 1:10 |
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| How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume! | How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! | |
Verse 10 WEB How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices! KJV How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! TSK love: so 1:2; how much: so 1:2,4; the smell: so 1:3,12, so 3:6, so 5:5, 2co 1:21,22, ga 5:22, php 4:18, re 5:8 |
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| Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. | Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. | |
Verse 11 WEB Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. KJV Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. TSK lips: so 4:3, so 5:13, so 7:9, ps 71:14,15,23,24, pr 16:24, ho 14:2, heb 13:15; honey: so 5:1, pr 24:13,14, isa 7:15; the smell: so 4:10, ge 27:27, ps 45:8, ho 14:7 |
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| A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped. | A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. | |
Verse 12 WEB A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. KJV A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. TSK garden: so 6:2,11, pr 5:15-18, isa 58:11, isa 61:10,11, jer 31:12, ho 6:3, 1co 6:13,19,20, 1co 7:34, re 21:27; sealed: 2co 1:22, eph 1:13, eph 4:30, re 7:3 |
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| The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard, | Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, | |
Verse 13 WEB Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, KJV Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, TSK are: so 6:11, so 7:12, so 8:2, ps 92:14, ec 2:5, isa 60:21, isa 61:11, joh 15:1-3, php 1:11; pleasant: so 6:2; camphire: so 4:14, so 1:14; spikenard: so 1:12, mr 14:3, joh 12:3 |
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| Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. | spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, | |
Verse 14 WEB spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, KJV Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: TSK calamus: ex 30:23, eze 27:19; cinnamon: pr 7:17, re 18:13; trees: so 4:6, so 5:1, nu 24:6; the chief: so 6:2, ge 43:11, 1ki 10:10, 2ch 9:9, mr 16:1 |
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| You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon. | a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. | |
Verse 15 WEB a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. KJV A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. TSK fountain: so 4:12, ec 2:6; a well: ps 36:8,9, ps 46:4, jer 2:13, jer 17:13, joh 4:10,14, joh 7:38, re 22:1; streams: jer 18:13,14 |
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The church has a desire for further influences of holy mercy and favour | ||
| Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits. | Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. | |
Verse 16 WEB Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. KJV Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. TSK Awake: so 1:4, ec 1:6, isa 51:9-11, isa 64:1, eze 37:9, joh 3:8, ac 2:1,2, ac 4:31; the spices: so 4:13,14, so 7:12,13, 2co 9:10-15, php 1:9-11, col 1:9-12, 1th 2:12,13, heb 13:20,21, 2pe 3:18; Let: so 5:1, so 8:12, mt 26:10,12, joh 5:8, ro 15:16,28, 1pe 2:5,9,10 |
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