How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Parallel translations
- WEB How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
- BSB How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
- NKJV How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
- NASB “How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
- NLT Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
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Quick answer
The beloved exclaims how beautiful and delightful she is, a joy to behold. His praise overflows in sheer delight.
Overview
After the detailed description, the beloved bursts into a summary cry of admiration: she is altogether pleasant and a source of delight. Such open expression of joy in one's spouse is part of the good gift of married love. It reflects, in a creaturely way, the delight God himself takes in his people, in whom he rejoices.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Song 4:10How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
- Song 1:15–16Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
- Ps 45:11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
- Song 7:10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
- Song 2:14O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
- Isa 62:4–5Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
- Song 4:7Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
- Zeph 3:17The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
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Christ at the center
The poetry of covenant love between bride and bridegroom pictures, at its highest, the love of Christ for his church — the Bridegroom who gave himself for his bride.
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