Read Song of Solomon 4

World English Bible · 16 verses

1. ¹ Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ 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!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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