Song of Solomon 5:8-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
9 Y What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?(C)
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
10 W My love is fit and strong,[a](D)
notable among ten thousand.(E)
11 His head is purest gold.
His hair is wavy[b](F)
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(G)
beside streams of water,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.[c]
13 His cheeks(H) are like beds of spice,
towers of[d] perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.(I)
14 His arms[e] are rods of gold
set[f] with topaz.[g](J)
His body[h] is an ivory panel
covered with sapphires.(K)
15 His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,(L)
as majestic as the cedars.(M)
16 His mouth is sweetness.
He is absolutely desirable.(N)
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 5:10 Or is radiant and ruddy
- Song of Solomon 5:11 Or is [like] palm leaves; Hb obscure
- Song of Solomon 5:12 Lit milk sitting in fullness
- Song of Solomon 5:13 LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Lit hands
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Lit filled; Sg 5:2,12
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Probably yellow topaz
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Lit abdomen
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