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Song of Solomon 4:7

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bridegroom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Innocence-Guilt;   Life;   Spotless;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Medicine;   Song of Songs;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Spot;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Song of Songs;   Spot;   Wisdom of Solomon, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blemish;   Hypocrisy;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 9;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are absolutely beautiful, my darling;there is no imperfection in you.
Hebrew Names Version
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
King James Version
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
English Standard Version
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
New American Standard Bible
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish on you.
New Century Version
My darling, everything about you is beautiful, and there is nothing at all wrong with you.
Amplified Bible
"O my love, you are altogether beautiful and fair. There is no flaw nor blemish in you!
World English Bible
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou art all faire, my loue, and there is no spot in thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling,And there is no blemish in you.
Contemporary English Version
My darling, you are lovely in every way.
Complete Jewish Bible
Everything about you is beautiful, my love; you are without a flaw.
Darby Translation
Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
My darling, you are beautiful all over. Every part of you is perfect.
George Lamsa Translation
You are all beautiful, my love; there is not even a spot in you.
Good News Translation
How beautiful you are, my love; how perfect you are!
Lexham English Bible
You are completely beautiful, my beloved! You are flawless!
Literal Translation
You are all beautiful, My love. There is no blemish on you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou art all fayre (o my loue) & no spott is there in the.
American Standard Version
Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.
Bible in Basic English
You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.
King James Version (1611)
Thou art all faire, my loue, there is no spot in thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou art all fayre (O my loue) and no spot is there in thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.
English Revised Version
Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My frendesse, thou art al faire, and no wem is in thee.
Update Bible Version
You are all fair, my love; And there is no spot in you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
New English Translation
You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!
New King James Version
You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you.
New Living Translation
You are altogether beautiful, my darling, beautiful in every way.
New Life Bible
"You are all beautiful, my love. You are perfect.
New Revised Standard
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou art, all over, beautiful, my fair one, and, blemish, is there none in thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.
Revised Standard Version
You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou [art] all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you.

Contextual Overview

1How beautiful you are, my darling! How very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead. 2Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one is lost. 3Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow is like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil. 4Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all round shields of the warriors. 5Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. 6Before the day breaks and shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense. 7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:1, Song of Solomon 5:16, Numbers 24:5, Psalms 45:11, Psalms 45:13, Ephesians 5:25-27, Colossians 1:22, 2 Peter 3:14, Jude 1:24, Revelation 21:2

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:8 - O thou Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Song of Solomon 1:15 - thou art fair Song of Solomon 2:10 - Rise Song of Solomon 6:4 - beautiful Song of Solomon 7:6 - General John 13:10 - but Ephesians 5:27 - not 1 Timothy 6:14 - without 2 Peter 2:13 - Spots Revelation 14:5 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. You will desire your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 4:6
"Why are you angry," said the LORD to Cain, "and why has your countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:8
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I do not know!" he answered. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 4:10
"What have you done?" replied the LORD. "The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 4:13
But Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 19:21
"Very well," he answered, "I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD-and be assured that your sin will find you out.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou art all fair, my love,.... Being justified by the righteousness of Christ, washed in his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit; of the title, my "love", see Song of Solomon 1:9. The church is often said by Christ to be "fair", his "fair one", and the "fairest among women", Song of Solomon 1:8; but here "all fair", being a perfection of beauty, and perfectly comely through his comeliness: this is said to show her completeness in Christ, as to justification; and that, with respect to sanctification, she had a perfection of parts, though not of degrees; and to observe, that the church and "all" the true members of it were so, the meanest and weakest believer, as well as the greatest and strongest. It is added,

[there is] no spot in thee; not that the saints have no sin in them; nor any committed by them; nor that their sins are not sins; nor that they have no spots in them, with respect to sanctification, which is imperfect; but with respect to their justification, as having the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and covered with that spotless robe, they are considered as having no spot in them; God sees no sin in them, so as to reckon it to them, and condemn them for it; and they stand unblamable and unreproveable in his sight; and will be presented by Christ, both to himself and to his father, and in the view of men and angels, "not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing", Ephesians 5:27, upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Section 4:7–5:1: The king meeting the bride in the evening of the same day, expresses once more his love and admiration in the sweetest and tenderest terms and figures. He calls her now “bride” (spouse, Song of Solomon 4:8) for the first time, to mark it as the hour of their espousals, and “sister-bride” (spouse, Song of Solomon 4:9-10, Song of Solomon 4:12; Song of Solomon 5:1), to express the likeness of thought and disposition which henceforth unites them. At the same time he invites her to leave for his sake her birthplace and its mountain neighborhood, and live henceforth for him alone.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 4:7. Thou art all fair - there is no spot in thee. — "My beloved, every part of thee is beautiful; thou hast not a single defect."

The description given of the beauties of Daphne, by OVID, Metam. lib. i. ver. 497, has some similarity to the above verses: -

Spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos.

Et, quid si comantur? ait. Videt igne micantes

Sideribus similes oculos; videt oscula, quae non

Est vidisse satis. Laudat digitosque, manusque,

Brachiaque, et nudos media plus parte lacertos.

Si qua latent meliora putat.

Her well-turn'd neck he view'd, (her neck was bare,)

And on her shoulders her disheveled hair.

O, were it comb'd, said he, with what a grace

Would every waving curl become her face!

He view'd her eyes, like heavenly lamps that shone,

He view'd her lips, too sweet to view alone;

Her taper fingers, and her panting breast.

He praises all he sees; and, for the rest,

Believes the beauties yet unseen the best.

DRYDEN.


Jayadeva describes the beauty of Radha in nearly the same imagery: "Thy lips, O thou most beautiful among women, are a bandhujiva flower; the lustre of the madhuca beams upon thy cheek; thine eye outshines the blue lotos; thy nose is a bud of the tila; the cunda blossom yields to thy teeth. Surely thou descendedst from heaven, O slender damsel! attended by a company of youthful goddesses; and all their beauties are collected in thee." See these poems, and the short notes at the end.

The same poet has a parallel thought to that in Song of Solomon 4:5, "Thy two breasts," &c. The companions of Radha thus address her: "Ask those two round hillocks which receive pure dew drops from the garland playing on thy neck, and the buds on whose tops start aloft with the thought of thy beloved."


 
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