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Song of Solomon 4:11Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 1:15Song 6:5Song 6:7Mic 7:14Song 2:14Song 4:9-10Song 7:52 Cor 3:18Ezek 16:14Matt 11:29
Song of Solomon 4:22Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing place; each of them has a twin, and not one of them is missing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 6:61 Thess 2:132 Pet 1:5-8Col 1:4-6Deut 7:13-14Exod 23:26Jer 15:16John 15:7
Song of Solomon 4:33Your lips are like a scarlet thread; your mouth is lovely. Your forehead behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 6:7Josh 2:18Song 5:162 Cor 5:18-21Col 3:16-17Col 4:6Eph 4:29Ezek 16:63Ezra 9:6Gen 32:10
Song of Solomon 4:44Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it— all shields of valiant warriors.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 7:41 Pet 1:5Eph 4:15-16Ezek 27:10-11Neh 3:192 Chr 12:9-112 Sam 22:51Col 2:19Song 1:102 Chr 9:15-16
Song of Solomon 4:55Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of the gazelle grazing among the lilies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 2:16Song 6:3Song 7:31 Pet 2:2Prov 5:19Song 8:10Isa 66:10-12Song 1:13Song 7:7Song 8:1
Song of Solomon 4:66Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, I will go up to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 2:17Song 4:14Luke 1:781 John 2:82 Pet 1:19Deut 12:5-6Exod 20:24Exod 30:23-26Exod 30:8Exod 37:29
Song of Solomon 4:77You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 1:15Song 4:1Col 1:22Eph 5:25-27Jude 1:242 Pet 3:14Ps 45:11Ps 45:13Num 24:5Song 5:16
Song of Solomon 4:88Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:9Song 2:131 Chr 5:23Ps 45:10Isa 62:51 Kgs 4:33Col 3:1-2Deut 3:25John 12:26Josh 12:1
Song of Solomon 4:99You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 5:19-20Song 4:12Song 5:1-22 Cor 11:2Hos 2:19-20Song 7:10Song 7:5-6Ezek 16:8Isa 54:5Isa 62:5
Song of Solomon 4:1010How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 1:2-4Gal 5:22Song 7:6Phil 4:18Song 1:12Song 3:6Song 5:52 Cor 1:21-22Rev 5:8
Song of Solomon 4:1111Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride, honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. The Lover to His Beloved:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 5:1Gen 27:27Hos 14:6-7Song 5:13Song 7:9Heb 13:15Hos 14:2Isa 7:15Prov 16:24Prov 24:13-14
Song of Solomon 4:1212You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 5:15-18Rev 21:271 Cor 6:13Isa 61:10-111 Cor 6:19-201 Cor 7:34Rev 7:32 Cor 1:22Eph 1:13Eph 4:30
Song of Solomon 4:1313Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 1:14Eccl 2:5Song 6:11Song 1:12Isa 60:21Isa 61:11John 12:3John 15:1-3Mark 14:3Phil 1:11
Song of Solomon 4:1414nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:23Song 4:6Song 3:6Song 6:2Ezek 27:19Prov 7:17Song 1:121 Kgs 10:102 Chr 9:9Gen 43:11
Song of Solomon 4:1515You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon. The Beloved to Her Lover:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:10John 4:14John 7:38Jer 2:13Eccl 2:6Jer 17:13Jer 18:13-14Ps 36:8-9Ps 46:4Rev 22:1
Song of Solomon 4:1616Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Song 6:2Song 5:11 Pet 2:5Acts 2:1-2Ezek 37:9Song 4:13-14Song 7:12-131 Thess 2:12-132 Cor 9:10-15Acts 4:31
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