Song of Solomon 1:16
Lo, thou art beautiful, my friend, also pleasant: also our couch is [made in the] green [wood].
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
In Context
15Lo, thou art beautiful, my beloved: lo, thou art beautiful: thy eyes are those of a dove.—
17The beams of our houses are cedars and our wainscoting of cypress-trees.
Cross References
Psalms 110:3Thy people will bring freewill-gifts on the day of thy power, in the ornaments of holiness: as out of the bosom of the morning-dawn so is thine the dew of thy youth.
Song of Solomon 3:7Behold, it is the bed, which is Solomon's, sixty valiant men are round about it, of the valiant ones of Israel.
Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as turrets of sweet perfumes: his lips, like lilies, dropping with fluid myrrh.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 1:13-17
Conference between Christ and His Church. 12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. Here… Read the whole commentary →