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Song of Solomon 6:4

Fair [art] thou, my friend, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

In Context

3I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine, Who is delighting himself among the lilies.

5Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair [is] as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:17And the wife of Jeroboam riseth, and goeth, and cometh to Tirzah; she hath come in to the threshold of the house, and the youth dieth;

1 Kings 15:33In the third year of Asa king of Judah reigned hath Baasha son of Ahijah over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years,

Psalms 48:3God in her high places is known for a tower.

Psalms 144:4Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

Song of Solomon 1:15Lo, thou [art] fair, my friend, Lo, thou [art] fair, thine eyes [are] doves!

Song of Solomon 4:7Thou [art] all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 6:2-4

Enquiring after Christ. 1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. 2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. Here is, I. The enquiry which the daughters of Jerusalem made concerning Christ, v. 1 . They still continue their high thoughts of the church, and call her, as before, the fairest… Read the whole commentary →

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