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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Song of Solomon 7:6

How faire, and how pleasant art thou, O Loue, for delights!

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gallery;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Song of Songs;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hair;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How beautiful you are and how pleasant,my love, with such delights!
Hebrew Names Version
How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
King James Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
English Standard Version
How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!
New American Standard Bible
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
New Century Version
You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of delights.
Amplified Bible
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
World English Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!
Legacy Standard Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant you are,My love, with all your pleasures!
Berean Standard Bible
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
Contemporary English Version
You are beautiful, so very desirable!
Complete Jewish Bible
You hold your head like the Karmel, and the hair on your head is like purple cloth — the king is held captive in its tresses.
Darby Translation
How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!
Easy-to-Read Version
You are so beautiful and so pleasant, a lovely, delightful young woman!
George Lamsa Translation
How beautiful you are, and how desirable, O beloved one, delightful daughter!
Good News Translation
How pretty you are, how beautiful; how complete the delights of your love.
Lexham English Bible
How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the delights!
Literal Translation
How beautiful and how pleasant you are in delights, O love!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how fayre and louely art thou (my derlynge) in pleasures?
American Standard Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Bible in Basic English
How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Howe faire and louely art thou my dearlyng in pleasures?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love!
English Revised Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dereworthe spousesse, thou art ful fair, and ful schappli in delices.
Update Bible Version
How fair and how pleasant are you, [O] love, daughters of delight.
Webster's Bible Translation
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
New English Translation
How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights!
New King James Version
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
New Living Translation
Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
New Life Bible
How beautiful and how pleasing you are, my love! How happy you make me!
New Revised Standard
How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
HEHow beautiful, and how delightful, O dear love, for delights:
Douay-Rheims Bible
How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!
Revised Standard Version
How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
Young's Literal Translation
How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!

Contextual Overview

1 Howe beautifull are thy feete with shooes, O princes daughter! the ioynts of thy thighs are like iewels, the worke of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Thy nauell is like a round goblet, which wanteth not licour: thy belly is like an heape of wheate, set about with lillies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two yong Roes that are twinnes. 4 Thy necke is as a towre of yuory: thine eyes like the fish pooles in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head vpon thee is like Carmel, and the haire of thine head like purple, the king is held in the galleries. 6 How faire, and how pleasant art thou, O Loue, for delights! 7 This thy stature is like to a palme tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will goe vp to the palme tree, I will take hold of the boughes thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose, like apples. 9 And the roofe of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloued, that goeth downe sweetely, causing the lippes of those that are asleepe, to speake.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 7:10, Song of Solomon 1:15, Song of Solomon 1:16, Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 4:7, Song of Solomon 4:10, Psalms 45:11, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5, Zephaniah 3:17

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:2 - thy love Song of Solomon 4:9 - thou hast Song of Solomon 7:12 - there will I give thee Isaiah 5:7 - his pleasant plant

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was fiue hundred yeeres olde: and Noah begate Sem, Ham, and Iapheth.
Genesis 8:13
And it came to passe in the sixe hundredth and one yeere, in the first moneth, the first day of the moneth, the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remooued the couering of the Arke, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was drie.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!] These are the words of the King in the galleries, wondering at the church's beauty, it being incomparable and inexpressible, it could not be said well how great it was; and expressing the strength of his love to her, which was invariably the same as ever. Of the "fairness" of the church, and of this title, "love", see Song of Solomon 1:9; and here she is said also to be "pleasant" to him, as his spouse and bride, in whom he takes infinite delight and pleasure, loving her with a love of complacency and delight; and therefore adds, "for delights", which he had in her before the world was, Proverbs 8:31. She was all delight g to him; her words, her actions and gestures, her comely countenance, her sweet and pleasant voice in prayer and praise, her ravishing looks of faith and love, her heavenly airs, and evangelic walk; in all which she appeared beautiful and delightful, beyond all human thought and expression.

g "Meae deliciae", Plauti Stichus, Act. 5. Sc. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A brief dialogue; Song of Solomon 7:6-9 are spoken by the king, Song of Solomon 7:9 and Song of Solomon 7:10 by the bride.

Song of Solomon 7:6

A general sentiment.

How fair, and what a charm hast thou,

O love! Among delightsome things!

Compare Song of Solomon 2:7, note; Song of Solomon 8:6-7, note.

Song of Solomon 7:7

This thy stature - The king now addresses the bride, comparing her to palm, vine, and apple-tree for nobility of form and pleasantness of fruit; and the utterances of her mouth to sweetest wine.

Song of Solomon 7:9

For my beloved, that goeth down sweetly - Words of the bride interrupting the king, and finishing his sentence, that goeth smoothly or pleasantly for my beloved. Compare Proverbs 23:31.

Song of Solomon 7:10

His desire is toward me - All his affection has me for its object. The bride proceeds to exercise her power over his loving will.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 7:6. How fair and how pleasant — Thou art every way beautiful, and in every respect calculated to inspire pleasure and delight.


 
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