Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, 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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Quick answer
He tenderly praises her as graceful and lovely, like twin fawns among lilies. It continues his admiration of her beauty within marital love.
Overview
The gentle image of twin fawns feeding among lilies conveys her grace, youth, and loveliness. Such intimate praise belongs to the honored love of marriage, which Scripture treats as good and pure (Prov. 5:18-19; Heb. 13:4). The Song celebrates this delight without shame, as God's gift.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Song 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
- Song 7:3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
- Song 6:3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
- Prov 5:19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
- Song 8:10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
- 1 Pet 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- Song 7:7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- Isa 66:10–12Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
- Song 8:1O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
- Song 1:13A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
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