Songs 5:15
Good News Translation
His thighs are columns of alabaster set in sockets of gold. He is majestic, like the Lebanon Mountains with their towering cedars.

New Revised Standard Version
His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

Contemporary English Version
His legs are columns of marble on feet of gold. He stands there majestic like Mount Lebanon and its choice cedar trees.

New American Bible
His legs, pillars of alabaster, resting on golden pedestals. His appearance, like the Lebanon, imposing as the cedars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

legs

Revelation 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as in a burning furnace. And his voice as the sound of many waters.

sockets

Exodus 26:19 For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.

his countenance

Songs 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Judges 13:6 And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:

Matthew 17:2 And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow.

Matthew 28:3 And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow.

Acts 2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came out a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his power.

as lebanon

Songs 4:11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Psalm 92:12 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Hosea 14:7 They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

Zechariah 9:17 For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
14His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires. 15His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.16His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.…
Cross References
1 Kings 4:33
And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

Psalm 80:10
The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

Songs 7:4
Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

Ezekiel 17:23
On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof.

Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.

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