Song of Solomon 4:3

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

4Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Leviticus 14:6As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.

Numbers 4:8They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

Joshua 2:18Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Psalms 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

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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