Song of Solomon 5:8-16
1599 Geneva Bible
8 I charge you, [a]O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my well-beloved, that you tell him that I am sick of love.
9 [b]O the fairest among women, what is thy well-beloved more than other well-beloved? what is thy well-beloved more than another lover, that thou dost so charge us?
10 My well-beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest of ten thousand.
11 His [c]head is as fine gold, his locks curled, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves upon the rivers of waters, which are washed with milk, and remain by the full vessels.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, and as sweet flowers, and his lips like lilies dropping down pure myrrh.
14 His hands as rings of gold set with the [d]chrysolite, his belly like white ivory covered with sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His mouth is as sweet things, and he is wholly delectable: this is my well-beloved, and this is my lover, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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- Song of Solomon 5:8 She asketh of them which are godly (forasmuch as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.
- Song of Solomon 5:9 Thus say they of Jerusalem.
- Song of Solomon 5:11 She describeth Christ to be of perfect beauty and comeliness.
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Hebrew, Tarshish.
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