the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Song of Solomon 1:16
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"Behold, you are handsome, my beloved,Indeed, so pleasant!Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!
"How handsome you are, my beloved, And so pleasant! Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!
Our bed is dect with flowres,
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.
Behold, you are handsome, my beloved! Yes, pleasant! Also our bed is green.
Behold, You are beautiful, my Beloved; yea, pleasant. Also our couch is green.
You are so handsome, my lover! Yes, and so charming! Our bed is so fresh and pleasant.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; And our couch is verdant. Lover
Behold, thou art faire, my beloued; yea pleasant: also our bedde is greene.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
O how fayre art thou (my beloued) how well fauored art thou? Oure bed is decte with floures,
The Woman And you, my dear lover—you're so handsome! And the bed we share is like a forest glen. We enjoy a canopy of cedars enclosed by cypresses, fragrant and green.
"Behold, how fair and handsome you are, my beloved; And so delightful! Our arbor is green and luxuriant.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green.
See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed [is] green.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;She Speaks: My love, you are handsome, truly handsome— the fresh green grass will be our wedding bed
[She]
— Look at you! So handsome, so pleasing, my darling! Our bed is the greenery;My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our bed is spacious.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; And our couch is verdant. Lover
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.
Young Woman
You are so handsome, my love, pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed;"How beautiful you are, my love, and so pleasing! Our bed is green.
Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our couch is green.
How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;
SHELo! thou art beautiful, my beloved, Yea delightful! BOTHYea! our couch, is covered with leaves:
(1-15) Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.
Look! You are beautiful, my beloved, truly pleasant. Truly our couch is verdant;
She
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;"How handsome you are, my beloved, And so delightful! Indeed, our bed is luxuriant!
You are so handsome, my lover, and so pleasant! Our bed is the grass.
The Woman
How handsome you are, my dearest; how you delight me! The green grass will be our bed;W How handsome you are, my love. How delightful! Our bed is lush with foliage;
Lo, my derling, thou art fair, and schapli; oure bed is fair as flouris.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;
Lo, thou [art] fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch [is] green,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou art: Song of Solomon 2:3, Song of Solomon 5:10-16, Psalms 45:2, Zechariah 9:17, Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:9, Revelation 5:11-13
also: Song of Solomon 3:7, Psalms 110:3
Reciprocal: Proverbs 7:16 - decked Song of Solomon 5:16 - most Song of Solomon 7:6 - General
Cross-References
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
Or else you will lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you will be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have appointed;
His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit to the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved,.... These are the words of the church, giving back to Christ his commendation of her, and much in the same words, as more properly belonging to him than her; he calls her "my love", she calls him "my beloved": he says that she was "fair"; the same she says of him, with a like note of wonder, attention, and asseveration, he had prefixed to the commendation of her; suggesting, that his fairness and beauty were essential, original, and underived, but hers was all from him; and therefore he only ought to have the character: he, as man, is "fairer" than the children of men; as Mediator, is full of grace and truth, which makes him look lovely in the eyes of his people; and, as a divine Person, is the brightness of his Father's glory. To which she adds,
yea, pleasant; looks pleasantly, with a smiling countenance on his people, being the image of the invisible God; pleasant to behold, as the sun of righteousness, and Saviour of men; pleasant in all his offices and relations; the doctrines of his Gospel are pleasant words; his ways, his ordinances, are ways of pleasantness; and especially having his presence, and communion with him in them; and which may be designed in the next clause;
also our bed [is] green; the same with "his bed which is Solomon's"; his by gift and purchase; the church's, by having a right through him, and an admittance to all the privileges of it: where the word is preached, ordinances administered, souls are begotten and born again, there Christ and his church have fellowship with each other; said to be "green", in allusion to the strewing of beds with green herbs and leaves, and branches of trees h; particularly the nuptial bed, called from thence "thalamus" i: and it may denote the fruitfulness of the saints in grace and holiness, like green olive trees, in the house of God: or else numerous converts in the church, a large spiritual seed and offspring of Christ and the church, as were in the first times of the Gospel, and will be in the latter day: a green bed is an emblem of fruitfulness in the conjugal state; so the Targum and Jarchi interpret it.
h Vid. Alstorph. de Lectis Veterum, c. 1. p. 2. s. 9, 10. "Viridante toro consederat herbae", Virgil. Aeneid. 5. v. 388. "In medo torus est de mollibus ulvis impositus lecto", Ovid. Metamorph. 8. v. 685. i Alstorph. ibid. c. 13. p. 73, 74.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. Also our bed is green. — ערס eres, from its use in several places of the Hebrew Bible, generally signifies a mattress; and here probably a green bank is meant, on which they sat down, being now on a walk in the country. Or it may mean a bower in a garden, or the nuptial bed.
