Song of Solomon 4

Song of Solomon 4:1

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.

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appear from or , eat of , etc

Song of Solomon 4:2

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.

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Song of Solomon 4:3

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

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Song of Solomon 4:4

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.

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Song of Solomon 4:5

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

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Song of Solomon 4:6

Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

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break Heb. breathe

Song of Solomon 4:7

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

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Song of Solomon 4:8

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

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Song of Solomon 4:9

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.

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ravished or , taken away , etc

Song of Solomon 4:10

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

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Song 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.

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Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

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enclosed Heb. barred

Song of Solomon 4:13

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

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Song of Solomon 4:14

with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

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Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

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Song of Solomon 4:16

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.

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