Song of Solomon 4:1
How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which Come up from mount Galaad.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 32:1And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,
Psalms 45:11Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.
Song of Solomon 2:10Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.
Song of Solomon 4:9Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.
Song of Solomon 6:5Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.
Song of Solomon 7:5Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 4:1
In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ( ch. iii. 11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of it, concluding her fair, all fair, ver. 1-5 and again, ver. 7 . II. He retires himself, and invites her with him, from the mountains of terror to those of delight, ver. 6 , 8 . III. He professes his love to her and his delight in her affection to him, ver. 9-14 . IV. She ascribes all she had that was valuable in her to him, and depends upon the continued influence of his… Read the whole commentary →