Song of Solomon 3 | Biblion Bible Reader

WEB·Song of Solomon 4

¹Behold, 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^H3303, my love^H7474; behold, thou art fair^H3303; thou hast doves^H3123' eyes^H5869 within^H1157 thy locks^H6777: thy hair^H8181 is as a flock^H5739 of goats^H5795, that appear^H1570 from mount^H2022 Gilead^H1568.

² Your 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^H8127 are like a flock^H5739 of sheep that are even shorn^H7094^(H8803), which came up^H5927^(H8804) from the washing^H7367; whereof every one bear twins^H8382^(H8688), and none is barren^H7909 among them.

³ Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

KJVThy lips^H8193 are like a thread^H2339 of scarlet^H8144, and thy speech^H4057 is comely^H5000: thy temples^H7541 are like a piece^H6400 of a pomegranate^H7416 within^H1157 thy locks^H6777.

⁴ Your 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^H6677 is like the tower^H4026 of David^H1732 builded^H1129^(H8803) for an armoury^H8530, whereon there hang^H8518^(H8803) a thousand^H505 bucklers^H4043, all shields^H7982 of mighty men^H1368.

⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

KJVThy two^H8147 breasts^H7699 are like two^H8147 young^H6082 roes^H6646 that are twins^H8380, which feed^H7462^(H8802) among the lilies^H7799.

⁶ Until 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^H3117 break^H6315^(H8799), and the shadows^H6752 flee away^H5127^(H8804), I will get^H3212^(H8799) me to the mountain^H2022 of myrrh^H4753, and to the hill^H1389 of frankincense^H3828.

⁷ You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

KJVThou art all fair^H3303, my love^H7474; there is no spot^H3971 in thee.

⁸ Come 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^H935^(H8799) with me from Lebanon^H3844, my spouse^H3618, with me from Lebanon^H3844: look^H7789^(H8799) from the top^H7218 of Amana^H549, from the top^H7218 of Shenir^H8149 and Hermon^H2768, from the lions^H738' dens^H4585, from the mountains^H2042 of the leopards^H5246.

⁹ You 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^H3823^(H8765), my sister^H269, my spouse^H3618; thou hast ravished my heart^H3823^(H8765) with one^H259 of thine eyes^H5869, with one^H259 chain^H6060 of thy neck^H6677.

¹⁰ How 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^H3302^(H8804) is thy love^H1730, my sister^H269, my spouse^H3618! how much better^H2895^(H8804) is thy love^H1730 than wine^H3196! and the smell^H7381 of thine ointments^H8081 than all spices^H1314!

¹¹ Your 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^H8193, O my spouse^H3618, drop^H5197^(H8799) as the honeycomb^H5317: honey^H1706 and milk^H2461 are under thy tongue^H3956; and the smell^H7381 of thy garments^H8008 is like the smell^H7381 of Lebanon^H3844.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

KJVA garden^H1588 inclosed^H5274^(H8803) is my sister^H269, my spouse^H3618; a spring^H1530 shut up^H5274^(H8803), a fountain^H4599 sealed^H2856^(H8803).

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

KJVThy plants^H7973 are an orchard^H6508 of pomegranates^H7416, with pleasant^H4022 fruits^H6529; camphire^H3724, with spikenard^H5373,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

KJVSpikenard^H5373 and saffron^H3750; calamus^H7070 and cinnamon^H7076, with all trees^H6086 of frankincense^H3828; myrrh^H4753 and aloes^H174, with all the chief^H7218 spices^H1314:

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

KJVA fountain^H4599 of gardens^H1588, a well^H875 of living^H2416 waters^H4325, and streams^H5140^(H8802) from Lebanon^H3844.

¹⁶ Awake, 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^H5782^(H8798), O north wind^H6828; and come^H935^(H8798), thou south^H8486; blow^H6315^(H8685) upon my garden^H1588, that the spices^H1314 thereof may flow out^H5140^(H8799). Let my beloved^H1730 come^H935^(H8799) into his garden^H1588, and eat^H398^(H8799) his pleasant^H4022 fruits^H6529.

WEB·Song of Solomon 3

¹By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

KJVBy night^H3915 on my bed^H4904 I sought^H1245^(H8765) him whom my soul^H5315 loveth^H157^(H8804): I sought^H1245^(H8765) him, but I found^H4672^(H8804) him not.

² I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

KJVI will rise^H6965^(H8799) now, and go about^H5437^(H8779) the city^H5892 in the streets^H7784, and in the broad ways^H7339 I will seek^H1245^(H8762) him whom my soul^H5315 loveth^H157^(H8804): I sought^H1245^(H8765) him, but I found^H4672^(H8804) him not.

³ The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

KJVThe watchmen^H8104^(H8802) that go about^H5437^(H8802) the city^H5892 found^H4672^(H8804) me: to whom I said, Saw^H7200^(H8804) ye him whom my soul^H5315 loveth^H157^(H8804)?

⁴ I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

KJVIt was but a little^H4592 that I passed^H5674^(H8804) from them, but I found^H4672^(H8804) him whom my soul^H5315 loveth^H157^(H8804): I held^H270^(H8804) him, and would not let him go^H7503^(H8686), until I had brought^H935^(H8689) him into my mother's^H517 house^H1004, and into the chamber^H2315 of her that conceived^H2029^(H8802) me.

⁵ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

KJVI charge^H7650^(H8689) you, O ye daughters^H1323 of Jerusalem^H3389, by the roes^H6643, and^H176 by the hinds^H355 of the field^H7704, that ye stir not up^H5782^(H8686), nor awake^H5782^(H8787) my love^H160, till he please^H2654^(H8799).

⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

KJVWho is this that cometh^H5927^(H8802) out of the wilderness^H4057 like pillars^H8490 of smoke^H6227, perfumed^H6999^(H8794) with myrrh^H4753 and frankincense^H3828, with all powders^H81 of the merchant^H7402^(H8802)?

⁷ Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

KJVBehold his bed^H4296, which is Solomon's^H8010; threescore^H8346 valiant^H1368 men are about^H5439 it, of the valiant^H1368 of Israel^H3478.

⁸ They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

KJVThey all hold^H270^(H8803) swords^H2719, being expert^H3925^(H8794) in war^H4421: every man^H376 hath his sword^H2719 upon his thigh^H3409 because of fear^H6343 in the night^H3915.

⁹ King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.

KJVKing^H4428 Solomon^H8010 made^H6213^(H8804) himself a chariot^H668 of the wood^H6086 of Lebanon^H3844.

¹⁰ He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

KJVHe made^H6213^(H8804) the pillars^H5982 thereof of silver^H3701, the bottom^H7507 thereof of gold^H2091, the covering^H4817 of it of purple^H713, the midst^H8432 thereof being paved^H7528^(H8803) with love^H160, for the daughters^H1323 of Jerusalem^H3389.

¹¹ Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

KJVGo forth^H3318^(H8798), O ye daughters^H1323 of Zion^H6726, and behold^H7200^(H8798) king^H4428 Solomon^H8010 with the crown^H5850 wherewith his mother^H517 crowned^H5849^(H8765) him in the day^H3117 of his espousals^H2861, and in the day^H3117 of the gladness^H8057 of his heart^H3820.

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