His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.
Parallel translations
- KJV His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
- BSB His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
- NKJV His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me.
- NASB “His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me.”
- NLT His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
- Isa 54:5–10For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
- Song 8:3–5His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.
- Jer 32:41Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
- John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
- Isa 62:4–5You will not be called Forsaken any more; nor will your land be called Desolate any more: but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
- Prov 4:8Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
- Eph 5:25–29Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
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