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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 的 良 人 哪 ， 你 甚 美 丽 可 爱 ！ 我 们 以 青 草 为 床 榻 ，

Contextual Overview

¹² The smell of my perfume spreads out to the king on his couch. ¹³ My lover is like a bag of myrrh that lies all night between my breasts. ¹⁴ My lover is like a bunch of flowers from the vineyards at En Gedi. ¹⁵ My darling, you are beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful, and your eyes are like doves. ¹⁶ You are so handsome, my lover, and so pleasant! Our bed is the grass. ¹⁷ Cedar trees form our roof; our ceiling is made of juniper wood.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou art: Song of Solomon 2:3, Song of Solomon 5:10-16, Psalms 45:2, Zechariah 9:17, Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:9, Revelation 5:11-13

also: Song of Solomon 3:7, Psalms 110:3

Reciprocal: Proverbs 7:16 - decked Song of Solomon 5:16 - most Song of Solomon 7:6 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the air and placed some of the water above the air and some below it.

Genesis 1:8
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so the dry land will appear." And it happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look up at the sky, you see the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the sky. But don't bow down and worship them, because the Lord your God has made these things for all people everywhere.

Job 31:26
I have not thought about worshiping the sun in its brightness nor admired the moon moving in glory

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted with joy?

Psalms 8:3
I look at your heavens, which you made with your fingers. I see the moon and stars, which you created.

Psalms 19:6
The sun rises at one end of the sky and follows its path to the other end. Nothing hides from its heat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved,.... These are the words of the church, giving back to Christ his commendation of her, and much in the same words, as more properly belonging to him than her; he calls her "my love", she calls him "my beloved": he says that she was "fair"; the same she says of him, with a like note of wonder, attention, and asseveration, he had prefixed to the commendation of her; suggesting, that his fairness and beauty were essential, original, and underived, but hers was all from him; and therefore he only ought to have the character: he, as man, is "fairer" than the children of men; as Mediator, is full of grace and truth, which makes him look lovely in the eyes of his people; and, as a divine Person, is the brightness of his Father's glory. To which she adds,

yea, pleasant; looks pleasantly, with a smiling countenance on his people, being the image of the invisible God; pleasant to behold, as the sun of righteousness, and Saviour of men; pleasant in all his offices and relations; the doctrines of his Gospel are pleasant words; his ways, his ordinances, are ways of pleasantness; and especially having his presence, and communion with him in them; and which may be designed in the next clause;

also our bed [is] green; the same with "his bed which is Solomon's"; his by gift and purchase; the church's, by having a right through him, and an admittance to all the privileges of it: where the word is preached, ordinances administered, souls are begotten and born again, there Christ and his church have fellowship with each other; said to be "green", in allusion to the strewing of beds with green herbs and leaves, and branches of trees h; particularly the nuptial bed, called from thence "thalamus" i: and it may denote the fruitfulness of the saints in grace and holiness, like green olive trees, in the house of God: or else numerous converts in the church, a large spiritual seed and offspring of Christ and the church, as were in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day: a green bed is an emblem of fruitfulness in the conjugal state; so the Targum and Jarchi interpret it.

h Vid. Alstorph. de Lectis Veterum, c. 1. p. 2. s. 9, 10. "Viridante toro consederat herbae", Virgil. Aeneid. 5. v. 388. "In medo torus est de mollibus ulvis impositus lecto", Ovid. Metamorph. 8. v. 685. i Alstorph. ibid. c. 13. p. 73, 74.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Also our bed is green. — ערס eres, from its use in several places of the Hebrew Bible, generally signifies a mattress; and here probably a green bank is meant, on which they sat down, being now on a walk in the country. Or it may mean a bower in a garden, or the nuptial bed.