Solomon’s Love Expressed
“How fair and beautiful ayou are, my darling,How very beautiful!Your beyes cbehind your veil are like those of a dove;Your dhair is like the shimmering black fleece of a flock of Arabian goatsThat have descended from Mount eGilead beyond the Jordan.Song 1:15Song 1:15; 5:12Song 6:7Song 6:5Mic 7:142 “Your ateeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewesWhich have come up from washing,All of which bear twins,And not one among them has lost her young.Song 6:63 “Your lips are like a ribbon of ascarlet,And your bmouth is lovely.Your ctemples are like a slice of the pomegranateBehind your veil.Josh 2:18Song 5:16Song 6:74 “Your aneck is like the tower of David,Built with rows of glistening stones,Whereon bhang a thousand shields,All of them cshields of warriors.Song 7:4Ezek 27:10, 112 Sam 1:215 “Your atwo breasts are like two fawns,Twins of a gazelleWhich bfeed among the lilies.Song 7:3Song 2:16; 6:2, 36 “aUntil the day breaksAnd the shadows flee away,In my thoughts I will go my way to the mountain of bmyrrhAnd to the hill of cfrankincense.Song 2:17Song 4:14
7 “aO my love, you are altogether beautiful and fair.There is no flaw nor blemish in you! John 14:18; Eph 5:27Song 1:15; Eph 5:278 “Come away with me from aLebanon, my promised bbride,May you come with me from Lebanon.Journey down from the top of cAmana,From the summit of dSenir and Hermon,From the dens of lions,From the mountains of leopards. 2+@Cor 11:2, 31 Kin 4:33; Ps 72:16Song 5:1; Is 62:52 Kin 5:12Deut 3:9; 1 Chr 5:23; Ezek 27:59 “You have ravished my heart and given me courage, amy sister, my promised bride;You have ravished my heart and given me courage with a single glance of your eyes,With one jewel of your bnecklace.Song 4:10, 12; 5:1, 2Gen 41:42; Prov 1:9; Ezek 16:11; Dan 5:710 “aHow beautiful is your love, my sister, my promised bride!How much bbetter is your love than wine,And the cfragrance of your oilsThan all kinds of balsam and spices. John 15:9; Rom 8:35Song 7:6Song 1:2, 4Song 1:311 “Your lips, my promised bride, adrip bhoney as the honeycomb;Honey and milk are under your tongue,And the fragrance of your garments is like the cfragrance of Lebanon.Prov 5:3Ps 19:10; Prov 24:13Gen 27:27; Hos 14:612 “A garden enclosed is my sister, my promised bride—A rock garden locked, a aspring bsealed up.Prov 5:15-18Gen 29:313 “Your shoots are an aorchard of bpomegranates,A paradise with cprecious fruits, dhenna with fragrant plants, John 15:5; Eph 5:9Eccl 2:5Song 6:11; 7:12Song 2:3; 4:16; 7:13Song 1:1414 aFragrant plants and saffron, calamus and bcinnamon,With all trees of cfrankincense,dMyrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.Song 1:12Ex 30:23Song 4:6Ps 45:8; Song 3:6; John 19:3915 “You are a fountain in a garden,A well of afresh and living water,And streams flowing from Lebanon.” John 4:10; 7:37, 38Zech 14:8; John 4:10
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