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Song of Solomon 1:16

[SHE] Lo! thou art beautiful, my beloved, Yea delightful! [BOTH] Yea! our couch, is covered with leaves:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

In Context

15[HE] Lo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, [are] doves!

17The beams of our house, are cedars, Our fretted ceiling, is cypress-trees.

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Cross References

Psalms 110:3Thy people, will freely offer themselves, in the day of thine army,—in the splendours of holiness, out of the womb of the dawn, To thee, [shall spring forth] the dew of thy youth.

Song of Solomon 3:7Lo! his couch,’tis Solomon’s own, Threescore heroes, around it,—of the heroes of Israel:

Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks, like a raised bed of balsam, growing plants of perfume,—His lips, lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling:

Philippians 3:8Yea, doubtless! and I account all things to be, loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom, the loss, of all things, have I suffered, and do account them refuse, in order that, Christ, I may win,

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 →

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