Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
- KJV Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
- NKJV Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains of gold. The Daughters of Jerusalem
- NASB “Your cheeks are delightful with jewelry, Your neck with strings of beads.”
- NLT How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels.
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Quick answer
He admires her adorned cheeks and jeweled neck. It continues his loving praise of her beauty.
Overview
The ornaments of earrings and strings of jewels frame and enhance her natural beauty. Such tender, specific praise nurtures love. The adorning of the bride foreshadows the church made beautiful and arrayed by her Lord, who delights to clothe His people in His own gifts of grace (Isa. 61:10).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 16:11–13I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
- 1 Pet 3:4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
- Song 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- Gen 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Gen 24:22And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
- Prov 1:9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
- Num 31:50So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- Isa 3:18–21In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;
- Gen 41:42Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
- 2 Pet 1:3–4His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
- Song 4:9You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
- Isa 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.
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