Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- BSB Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
- NKJV Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies.
- NASB “Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle That graze among the lilies.
- NLT Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Song 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
- Song 7:3Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
- Song 6:3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
- Prov 5:19A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
- Song 8:10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
- 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
- Song 7:7This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
- Isa 66:10–12“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
- Song 8:1Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
- Song 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
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