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Song of Solomon 7:6

How fair and how pleasant are you, [O] love, daughters of delight.

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

Legacy Standard Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant you are,My love, with all your pleasures!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Howe faire and louely art thou my dearlyng in pleasures?
Darby Translation
How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!
New King James Version
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
Literal Translation
How beautiful and how pleasant you are in delights, O love!
Easy-to-Read Version
You are so beautiful and so pleasant, a lovely, delightful young woman!
World English Bible
How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
King James Version (1611)
How faire, and how pleasant art thou, O Loue, for delights!
King James Version
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how fayre and louely art thou (my derlynge) in pleasures?
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!
Bible in Basic English
How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for 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!
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!
George Lamsa Translation
How beautiful you are, and how desirable, O beloved one, delightful daughter!
Hebrew Names Version
How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!
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.
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!
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!
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!
Lexham English Bible
How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the 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.
Good News Translation
How pretty you are, how beautiful; how complete the delights of your love.
Christian Standard Bible®
How beautiful you are and how pleasant, my love, with such delights!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dereworthe spousesse, thou art ful fair, and ful schappli in delices.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman. 2 Your body is [like] a round goblet, [Wherein] no mingled wine is wanting: Your waist is [like] a heap of wheat Set about with lilies. 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe. 4 Your neck is like the tower of ivory; Your eyes [as] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus. 5 Your head on you is like Carmel, And the hair of your head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses [thereof]. 6 How fair and how pleasant are you, [O] love, daughters of delight. 7 Your stature is like a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters. 8 I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let your breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of your breath like apples, 9 And your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

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 500 years old: And Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 8:13
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and noticed that the face of the ground 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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