Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
- BSB Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
- 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 decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
- 1 Pet 3:4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
- Song 5:13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
- Gen 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
- Gen 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Prov 1:9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- Num 31:50We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
- Isa 3:18–21In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
- Gen 41:42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
- 2 Pet 1:3–4According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
- Song 4:9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
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