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Geneva Bible

Song of Solomon 7:6

Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

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- 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

English Standard Version
How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!
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!
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!
Amplified Bible
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
American Standard Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for 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.
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!
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!
Berean Standard Bible
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
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!
New Century Version
You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of 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!
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.
New American Standard Bible
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!
King James Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Howe faire and louely art thou my dearlyng in pleasures?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dereworthe spousesse, thou art ful fair, and ful schappli in delices.
Young's Literal Translation
How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
World English Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
Revised Standard Version
How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
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!
Bible in Basic English
How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how fayre and louely art thou (my derlynge) in pleasures?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!
Legacy Standard Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant you are,My love, with all your pleasures!

Contextual Overview

1 Howe beautifull are thy goings with shooes, O princes daughter! the ioynts of thy thighs are like iewels: the worke of the hande of a cunning workeman. 2 Thy nauel is as a round cuppe that wanteth not licour: thy belly is as an heape of wheat compassed about with lilies. 3 Thy two breastes are as two young roes that are twinnes. 4 Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters. 6 Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures! 7 This thy stature is like a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters. 8 I saide, I will goe vp into the palme tree, I will take holde of her boughes: thy breastes shall nowe be like the clusters of the vine: and the sauour of thy nose like apples, 9 And the roufe of thy mouth like good wine, which goeth straight to my welbeloued, and causeth the lippes of the ancient 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 hundreth yeere olde. And Noah begate Shem, Ham and Iapheth.
Genesis 8:13
And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part 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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