We will make you ornaments of gold With studs of silver. The Shulamite
Parallel translations
- WEB We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver.
- KJV We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
- BSB We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver.
- NASB ¶“We will make for you jewelry of gold With beads of silver.”
- NLT We will make for you earrings of gold and beads of silver.
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Quick answer
The beloved (with others) promises to make her costly ornaments of gold and silver. It shows his desire to honor and adorn her further.
Overview
Beyond admiring her existing jewels, he pledges to fashion new ornaments of gold and silver studs for her. Love seeks to give and to beautify the beloved. This pictures the generous love of the Lord, who not only delights in His bride but enriches and adorns her with good gifts (Eph. 5:25-27).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 149:4For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
- Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- Gen 1:26God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Song 8:9If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
- Eph 5:25–27Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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Christ at the center
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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