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Song of Solomon 4:5

Your two breasts are like two young does, twins that pasture among the lilies.

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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, which was built with ramparts: a thousand shields are hanging from it, all the armor of the strong.

6Until the day rises and the shadows decline, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:19a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.

Song of Solomon 2:16My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollows of the wall, reveal to me your face. Let your voice sound in my ears. For your voice is sweet, and your face is graceful.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:7Most beloved one, how beautiful you are, and how graceful in delights!

Song of Solomon 8:10If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.

1 Peter 2:2Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto 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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