How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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 45:13All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
- Eph 4:15–16Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- Exod 35:35He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.
- Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
- 2 Cor 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- Eph 6:15and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
- Dan 2:32The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
- Col 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
- Phil 1:27Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
- Exod 28:15You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
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