Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
- BSB How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
- NKJV Behold, you are handsome, my beloved! Yes, pleasant! Also our bed is green.
- NASB ¶“How handsome you are, my beloved, And so delightful! Indeed, our bed is luxuriant!
- NLT You are so handsome, my love, pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed;
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Cross-references & the web
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- Song 2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Ps 45:2You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
- Zech 9:17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
- Rev 5:11–13I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- Song 5:10–16My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
- Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
- Song 3:7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
- Phil 3:8–9Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
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