Song of Solomon 4:2-4
Living Bible
2 Your teeth are white as sheep’s wool, newly shorn and washed; perfectly matched, without one missing. 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.
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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 4:2-4
New International Version
2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
not one of them is alone.(A)
3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;
your mouth(B) is lovely.(C)
Your temples behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.(D)
4 Your neck is like the tower(E) of David,
built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(F)
all of them shields of warriors.
Footnotes
- Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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