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Song of Solomon 4:5

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

In Context

4Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

Song of Solomon 2:16My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.

Song of Solomon 7:7You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

Song of Solomon 8:10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

1 Peter 2:2Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 4:2-8

The Beauty of the Church. 1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for… Read the whole commentary →

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