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Contemporary English Version

Song of Solomon 7:6

You are beautiful, so very desirable!

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!
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:
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 He Speaks: You are a princess, and your feet are graceful in their sandals. Your thighs are works of art, each one a jewel; 2 your navel is a wine glass filled to overflowing. Your body is full and slender like a bundle of wheat bound together by lilies. 3 Your breasts are like twins of a deer. 4 Your neck is like ivory, and your eyes sparkle like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is beautiful like Mount Lebanon above the city of Damascus. 5 Your head is held high like Mount Carmel; your hair is so lovely it holds a king prisoner. 6 You are beautiful, so very desirable! 7 You are tall and slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are full. 8 I will climb that tree and cling to its branches. I will discover that your breasts are clusters of grapes, and that your breath is the aroma of apples. 9 Kissing you is more delicious than drinking the finest wine. How wonderful and tasty!

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
After Noah was five hundred years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
Noah was now six hundred one years old. And by the first day of that year, almost all the water had gone away. Noah made an opening in the roof of the boat and saw that the ground was getting 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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