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Song of Songs 1:9

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I have compared you, my love, To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.
Song of Songs 1:9 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
  • KJV I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
  • BSB I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
  • NASB ¶“To me, my darling, you are like My mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.
  • NLT You are as exciting, my darling, as a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions.

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Quick answer

The beloved praises the bride, comparing her to a magnificent mare among Pharaoh's chariots. It is high praise of her striking beauty.

Overview

A prized royal mare was an object of great admiration, and the comparison honors the woman's stately loveliness. The beloved delights openly in her. So too the Lord rejoices over His people and finds them beautiful, not because of their merit but because of His love (Isa. 62:5; Zeph. 3:17).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 12

  • Song 2:10My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
  • Song 2:13The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
  • John 15:14–15You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • Song 2:2As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  • Song 1:15Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.
  • Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
  • Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
  • Song 4:7You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
  • Song 6:4You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
  • 2 Chr 1:14–17Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
  • Song 4:1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
  • 1 Kgs 10:28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

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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.

How Song of Songs 1:9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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I have comparedדָּמָהthee, O my loveרַעְיָהto a company of horsesסוּסָהin Pharaoh'sפַּרְעֹהchariotsרֶכֶב
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