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Song of Solomon 4:3-5
Living Bible
Song of Solomon 4:3-5
Living Bible
3 Your lips are like a thread of scarlet—and how beautiful your mouth. Your cheeks are matched loveliness[a] behind your locks. 4 Your neck is stately[b] as the tower of David, jeweled with a thousand heroes’ shields. 5 Your breasts are like twin fawns of a gazelle, feeding among the lilies.
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- Song of Solomon 4:3 matched loveliness, literally, “like halves of a pomegranate.” behind your locks, literally, “behind your veil.”
- Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is stately, implied.
Song of Songs 4:3-5
New International Version
Song of Songs 4:3-5
New International Version
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
your mouth(A) is lovely.(B)
Your temples behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
4 Your neck is like the tower(D) of David,
built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(E)
all of them shields of warriors.
5 Your breasts(F) are like two fawns,
like twin fawns of a gazelle(G)
that browse among the lilies.(H)
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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