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Song of Songs 4

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBBehold, 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.
    KJVBehold, 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.
  2. 2
    WEBYour 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.
    KJVThy 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.
  3. 3
    WEBYour lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
    KJVThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
  4. 4
    WEBYour neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
    KJVThy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
  5. 5
    WEBYour two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
    KJVThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
  6. 6
    WEBUntil the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
    KJVUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
  7. 7
    WEBYou are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
    KJVThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
  8. 8
    WEBCome 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.
    KJVCome 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.
  9. 9
    WEBYou have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
    KJVThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
  10. 10
    WEBHow 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!
    KJVHow 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!
  11. 11
    WEBYour 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.
    KJVThy 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.
  12. 12
    WEBMy sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
    KJVA garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
  13. 13
    WEBYour shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
    KJVThy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
  14. 14
    WEBspikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
    KJVSpikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
  15. 15
    WEBa fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
    KJVA fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
  16. 16
    WEBAwake, 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.
    KJVAwake, 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.
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