How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
Parallel translations
- KJV How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
- BSB How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
- NKJV How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.
- NASB “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, Prince’s daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.
- NLT How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a skilled craftsman.
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Quick answer
The beloved praises the bride's graceful feet and shapely thighs, likening them to a craftsman's fine work. Her beauty is admired as a thing of artful design.
Overview
This begins another descriptive praise (wasf), here moving from feet upward. Calling her a 'prince's daughter' and her form the 'work of a skillful workman' honors her dignity and beauty as something crafted and precious. Within marriage such mutual delight in the body is celebrated as good, reflecting the goodness of God's own design of man and woman.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 45:13The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
- Eph 4:15–16but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
- Exod 35:35He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
- Luke 15:22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
- 2 Cor 6:18I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
- Eph 6:15and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;
- Dan 2:32As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
- Col 2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
- Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
- Exod 28:15“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
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