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Song of Solomon 7:6

How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in 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.
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 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:
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 What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince’s daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful workman. 2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. 4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels. 6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights! 7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and the odour of thy mouth like apples. 9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

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
(5-31) And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.

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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