Song of Solomon 4:7

Updated Bible Version

You are all fair, my love; And there is no spot in you.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling,And there is no blemish in you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou art all fayre (O my loue) and no spot is there in thee.

Darby Translation
Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.

New King James Version
You are all fair, my love, And there is no spot in you.

Literal Translation
You are all beautiful, My love. There is no blemish on you.

Easy-to-Read Version
My darling, you are beautiful all over. Every part of you is perfect.

World English Bible
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

King James Version (1611)
Thou art all faire, my loue, there is no spot in thee.

King James Version
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou art all fayre (o my loue) & no spott is there in the.

Amplified Bible
"O my love, you are altogether beautiful and fair. There is no flaw nor blemish in you!

American Standard Version
Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.

Bible in Basic English
You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.

New English Translation
You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!

Contemporary English Version
My darling, you are lovely in every way.

Complete Jewish Bible
Everything about you is beautiful, my love; you are without a flaw.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou art all faire, my loue, and there is no spot in thee.

George Lamsa Translation
You are all beautiful, my love; there is not even a spot in you.

Hebrew Names Version
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.

New Living Translation
You are altogether beautiful, my darling, beautiful in every way.

New Life Bible
"You are all beautiful, my love. You are perfect.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.

English Revised Version
Thou art all fair, my love; and there is no spot in thee.

Berean Standard Bible
You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

New Revised Standard
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou art, all over, beautiful, my fair one, and, blemish, is there none in thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.

Lexham English Bible
You are completely beautiful, my beloved! You are flawless!

English Standard Version
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

New American Standard Bible
"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish on you.

New Century Version
My darling, everything about you is beautiful, and there is nothing at all wrong with you.

Good News Translation
How beautiful you are, my love; how perfect you are!

Christian Standard Bible®
You are absolutely beautiful, my darling, with no imperfection in you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My frendesse, thou art al faire, and no wem is in thee.

Revised Standard Version
You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou [art] all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

Contextual Overview

¹ Look, you are fair, my love; look, you are fair; Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead. ² Your teeth are like a flock [of ewes] that are [newly] shorn, Which have come up from the washing, Whereof every one has twins, And none is bereaved among them. ³ Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, And your mouth is comely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your veil. ⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields of the mighty men. ⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies. ⁶ Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense. ⁷ You are all fair, my love; And there is no spot in you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:1, Song of Solomon 5:16, Numbers 24:5, Psalms 45:11, Psalms 45:13, Ephesians 5:25-27, Colossians 1:22, 2 Peter 3:14, Jude 1:24, Revelation 21:2

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:8 - O thou Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Song of Solomon 1:15 - thou art fair Song of Solomon 2:10 - Rise Song of Solomon 6:4 - beautiful Song of Solomon 7:6 - General John 13:10 - but Ephesians 5:27 - not 1 Timothy 6:14 - without 2 Peter 2:13 - Spots Revelation 14:5 - without

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth sons; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.

Genesis 4:6
And Yahweh said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance fallen?

Genesis 4:8
And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4:9
And Yahweh said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I don't know: am I my brother's keeper?

Genesis 4:10
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11
And now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;

Genesis 4:12
from now on when you till the ground, it shall not yield its strength to you; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.

Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to Yahweh, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 19:21
And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Numbers 32:23
But if you will not do so, look, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou art all fair, my love,.... Being justified by the righteousness of Christ, washed in his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit; of the title, my "love", see Song of Solomon 1:9. The church is often said by Christ to be "fair", his "fair one", and the "fairest among women", Song of Solomon 1:8; but here "all fair", being a perfection of beauty, and perfectly comely through his comeliness: this is said to show her completeness in Christ, as to justification; and that, with respect to sanctification, she had a perfection of parts, though not of degrees; and to observe, that the church and "all" the true members of it were so, the meanest and weakest believer, as well as the greatest and strongest. It is added,

[there is] no spot in thee; not that the saints have no sin in them; nor any committed by them; nor that their sins are not sins; nor that they have no spots in them, with respect to sanctification, which is imperfect; but with respect to their justification, as having the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and covered with that spotless robe, they are considered as having no spot in them; God sees no sin in them, so as to reckon it to them, and condemn them for it; and they stand unblamable and unreproveable in his sight; and will be presented by Christ, both to himself and to his father, and in the view of men and angels, "not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing", Ephesians 5:27, upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Section 4:7–5:1: The king meeting the bride in the evening of the same day, expresses once more his love and admiration in the sweetest and tenderest terms and figures. He calls her now “bride” (spouse, Song of Solomon 4:8) for the first time, to mark it as the hour of their espousals, and “sister-bride” (spouse, Song of Solomon 4:9-10, Song of Solomon 4:12; Song of Solomon 5:1), to express the likeness of thought and disposition which henceforth unites them. At the same time he invites her to leave for his sake her birthplace and its mountain neighborhood, and live henceforth for him alone.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Song of Solomon 4:7. Thou art all fair - there is no spot in thee. — "My beloved, every part of thee is beautiful; thou hast not a single defect."

The description given of the beauties of Daphne, by OVID, Metam. lib. i. ver. 497, has some similarity to the above verses: -

Spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos.

Et, quid si comantur? ait. Videt igne micantes

Sideribus similes oculos; videt oscula, quae non

Est vidisse satis. Laudat digitosque, manusque,

Brachiaque, et nudos media plus parte lacertos.

Si qua latent meliora putat.

Her well-turn'd neck he view'd, (her neck was bare,)

And on her shoulders her disheveled hair.

O, were it comb'd, said he, with what a grace

Would every waving curl become her face!

He view'd her eyes, like heavenly lamps that shone,

He view'd her lips, too sweet to view alone;

Her taper fingers, and her panting breast.

He praises all he sees; and, for the rest,

Believes the beauties yet unseen the best.

DRYDEN.

Jayadeva describes the beauty of Radha in nearly the same imagery: "Thy lips, O thou most beautiful among women, are a bandhujiva flower; the lustre of the madhuca beams upon thy cheek; thine eye outshines the blue lotos; thy nose is a bud of the tila; the cunda blossom yields to thy teeth. Surely thou descendedst from heaven, O slender damsel! attended by a company of youthful goddesses; and all their beauties are collected in thee." See these poems, and the short notes at the end.

The same poet has a parallel thought to that in Song of Solomon 4:5, "Thy two breasts," &c. The companions of Radha thus address her: "Ask those two round hillocks which receive pure dew drops from the garland playing on thy neck, and the buds on whose tops start aloft with the thought of thy beloved."