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Song of Solomon 1:10
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How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels.
Your cheeks are comely with plaits [of hair], Your neck with strings of jewels.
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, and your neck with jewels.
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.
Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels], thy neck with chains [of gold].
"Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with strings of jewels."
Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Thi chekis ben feire, as of a turtle; thi necke is as brochis.
Thy cheeks are comely with plaits [of hair], thy neck with strings of jewels
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Earrings add to your beauty, and you wear a necklace of precious stones.
Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, Thy neck with strings of jewels.
Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.
your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with its strings of beads;
Thy cheeks are comely with bead-rows, Thy neck with ornamental chains.
Your cheeks are so beautiful with those ornaments hanging beside them. Your neck is so lovely under that beautiful string of jewels.
Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.
Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of iewels, thy necke with chaines of golde.
Your face is beautiful with the objects you wear, and your neck with the beautiful chain around it.
Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.
Your cheeks are comely with braided hair, and your neck with necklaces.
Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.
Comely are thy cheeks, with bead-rows, thy neck, with strings of gems.
(1-9) Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove’s, thy neck as jewels.
Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Thy cheekes and thy necke is beautifull as the turtles, and hanged with spanges and goodly iewels,
How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains!
Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,your neck with its necklace.
Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Your neck with strings of jewels.
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with chains of beads .
Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.
Then shal thy chekes & thy neck be made fayre, & hanged wt spages & goodly iewels:
"Your cheeks are delightful with jewelry, Your neck with strings of beads."
Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains of gold.
"Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads."
Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,Your neck with strings of beads."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy cheeks: Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:47, Isaiah 3:18-21, Ezekiel 16:11-13, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:4
thy neck: Song of Solomon 4:9, Genesis 41:42, Numbers 31:50, Proverbs 1:9, 1 Peter 3:4
Reciprocal: Exodus 39:15 - chains at the ends Exodus 39:18 - two wreathen Song of Solomon 4:4 - neck Song of Solomon 5:13 - cheeks Song of Solomon 7:4 - neck Daniel 5:7 - a chain
Cross-References
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels],.... Or "beautiful as turtledoves", as the Septuagint; or it may be rendered "with turtles", since the word "jewels" is not in the text; not with images of turtles on the bridles of the horses before mentioned, as Aben Ezra; but rather some ornaments of women having such images on them may be meant, called "turtles", or "turturellas"; they seem to me to be the same with the earrings, which being fastened to a thin plate of gold or silver, which went across the forehead, or to a ribbon bound on it, as Aben Ezra on Genesis 24:22; observes, hung down by the ears in rows on both sides of the cheeks, and made but one ornament; as they did when another jewel from the same plate or ribbon hung down from the forehead to the nose, called a nose jewel, Ezekiel 16:12; a; and such an ornament, consisting of these several parts, Abraham's servant is said to put upon the face or cheeks of Rebekah, Genesis 24:47; and these may respect the gifts and graces of the Spirit of God, with which the church is ornamented; and are many and various, and are orderly and regularly disposed, and make very comely and lovely, and may be further described in the next clause;
thy neck with chains [of gold]; the word "gold" not being in the text, the chains may be understood, as they commonly are by the Jewish writers, of precious stones; as pearls bored and strung, which make a necklace; so Stockius b interprets it of an ornament of pearls and precious stones, orderly disposed and put about the neck, in use with great personages; so the eldest daughter of Priamus had, "collo monile baccatum" c, a pearl necklace, which Aeneas made a present of to Dido; such was the chain of gold, beset with amber, presented to Penelope by her suitors, which shone like the sun d. The church has her golden chain, or pearl necklace; which are either the graces of the Spirit, so linked together, that where there is one there are all; and which consists of those ten links, or pearls, faith, hope, love, repentance, humility, patience, self-denial, contentment in every state, spiritual knowledge, longsuffering, or forbearance; sincerity goes through them all. Or else the spiritual blessings of the covenant of grace, with which the church and all the saints are blessed in Christ at once, and with one and all; and which golden chain of salvation, one link of which cannot be broken, is excellently described by the apostle in Romans 8:30.
a Vid. Hieronym. in ibid. b Clavis Ling. S. p. 387. c Virgil. Aeneid. 1. v. 650. d Homer. Odyss. 18. v. 295.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This and the next Song of Solomon 1:15-7 sections are regarded by ancient commentators (Jewish and Christian) as expressing âthe love of espousalsâ Jeremiah 2:2 between the Holy One and His Church, first in the wilderness of the Exodus, and then in the wilderness of the world Ezekiel 20:35-36.
Song of Solomon 1:9
Or, to a mare of mine in the chariots of Pharaoh I liken thee, O my friend. (The last word is the feminine form of that rendered âfriendâ at Song of Solomon 5:16.) The comparison of the bride to a beautiful horse is singularly like one in Theocritus, and some have conjectured that the Greek poet, having read at Alexandria the Septuagint Version of the Song, may have borrowed these thoughts from it. If so, we have here the first instance of an influence of sacred on profane literature. The simile is especially appropriate on the lips, or from the pen, of Solomon, who first brought horses and chariots from Egypt 1 Kings 10:28-29. As applied to the bride it expresses the stately and imposing character of her beauty.
Song of Solomon 1:10, Song of Solomon 1:11
Rows ... borders - The same Hebrew word in both places; ornaments forming part of the brideâs head-dress, probably strings of beads or other ornaments descending on the cheeks. The introduction of âjewelsâ and âgoldâ in Song of Solomon 1:10 injures the sense and destroys the climax of Song of Solomon 1:11, which was spoken by a chorus (hence âwe,â not âI,â as when the king speaks, Song of Solomon 1:9). They promise the bride ornaments more worthy and becoming than the rustic attire in which she has already such charms for the king: âOrnaments of gold will we make for thee with studs (or âpointsâ) of silver.â The âstudsâ are little silver ornaments which it is proposed to affix to the golden (compare Proverbs 25:12), or substitute for the strung beads of the brideâs necklace.
Song of Solomon 1:12-14
The brideâs reply Song of Solomon 1:12 may mean, âWhile the king reclines at the banquet I anoint him with my costliest perfume, but he has for me a yet sweeter fragranceâ Song of Solomon 1:13-14. According to Origenâs interpretation, the bride represents herself as anointing the king, like Mary John 12:3, with her most precious unguents.
Spikenard - An unguent of great esteem in the ancient world, retaining its Indian name in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. It is obtained from an Indian plant now called âjatamansi.â
Song of Solomon 1:13
Render: A bag of myrrh is my beloved to me, which lodgeth in my bosom.
Song of Solomon 1:14
Camphire - Rather, ×פר koÌpher,â from which âcyprusâ is probably derived (in the margin misspelled âcypress â),the name by which the plant called by the Arabs âhennaâ was known to the Greeks and Romans. It is still much esteemed throughout the East for the fragrance of its flowers and the dye extracted from its leaves. Engedi was famous for its vines, and the henna may have been cultivated with the vines in the same enclosures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Thy cheeks are comely — D'Arvieux has remarked that "the Arabian ladies wear a great many pearls about their necks and caps. They have golds chains about their necks which hang down upon their bosoms with strings of coloured gauze; the gauze itself bordered with zechins and other pieces of gold coin, which hang upon their foreheads and both cheeks. The ordinary women wear small silver coins, with which they cover their forehead-piece like fish scales, as this is one of the principal ornaments of their faces." I have seen their essence bottles ornamented with festoons of aspers, and small pieces of silver pearls, beads, &c. One of these is now before me.
