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.
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.
- 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 king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
- Eph 4:15–16But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Exod 35:35Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
- Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
- 2 Cor 6:18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
- Eph 6:15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
- Dan 2:32This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
- Col 2:19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
- Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
- Exod 28:15And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
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