She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
- BSB In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
- NKJV She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors; The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
- NASB She will be brought to the King in colorful garments; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.
- NLT In her beautiful robes, she is led to the king, accompanied by her bridesmaids.
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- Song 8:13You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
- 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- Song 6:1Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
- Exod 28:39You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
- Song 1:3–5Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
- Song 2:7I 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.
- Song 6:13Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
- Song 6:8There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
- Song 5:8–9I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
- Judg 5:30‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’
- John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
- Rev 14:1–4I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
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