Songs 4:1
Good News Translation
How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.

New Revised Standard Version
How beautiful you are, my love, how very beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

Contemporary English Version
My darling, you are lovely, so very lovely--as you look through your veil, your eyes are those of a dove. Your hair tosses about as gracefully as goats coming down from Gilead.

New American Bible
How beautiful you are, my friend, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.

thou art fair

Songs 4:9,10 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck. . . .

Songs 1:15 Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

Songs 2:10,14 Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come. . . .

Psalm 45:11 And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

Ezekiel 16:14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

thou hast

Songs 5:12 His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

Matthew 11:29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

Philippians 2:3-5 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves: . . .

thy hair

Songs 5:11 His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

Songs 6:5,7 Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad. . . .

Songs 7:5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

appear from

Numbers 32:1,40 And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, . . .

Context
Solomon Admires His Bride
1How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad.2Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.…
Cross References
Songs 1:15
Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

Songs 5:12
His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

Songs 6:5
Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.

Songs 6:7
Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.

Jeremiah 22:6
For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou art to me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities not habitable.

Micah 7:14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.

Songs 3:11
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