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Song of Solomon 7:6

How beautiful and how pleasing you are, my love! How happy you make me!

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.
King James Version (1611)
How faire, and how pleasant art thou, O Loue, for delights!
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 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 "How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O daughter! Your legs are like stones of much worth, the work of an able workman. 2 Your navel is like a beautiful glass full of wine. Your stomach is like gathered grain with lilies around it. 3 Your two breasts are like two young deer, the two young ones of a gazelle. 4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. 5 Your head crowns you like Carmel. Your flowing hair is like strings of purple. The king is held by the beauty of your hair. 6 How beautiful and how pleasing you are, my love! How happy you make me! 7 You stand like a palm tree. And your breasts are like its fruit. 8 I said, ‘I will go to the top of the palm tree. I will take hold of its branches.' O, may your breasts be like the fruit of the vine, and the sweet smell of your breath like pleasing fruit. 9 And may your mouth be like the best wine." "For my love, it is smooth going down, flowing through the lips while sleeping.

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
When Noah had lived 500 years, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
In the year 601, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah took the covering off the large boat, and looked out and saw that the earth was dry.

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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