2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate. 4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
Song of Solomon 4:2–4
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Song of Solomon 6:5–7
5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost. 7 Your brow behind your veil is…
Song of Solomon 7:3–5
3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. 4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus. 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Car…
Song of Solomon 1:9–11
9 I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. 11 We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with beads of silver.
Song of Solomon 4:10–12
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices. 11 Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your gar…
Song of Solomon 5:12–14
12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels. 13 His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh. 14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an iv…
Song of Solomon 1:14–16
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. 16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
Song of Solomon 7:8–10
8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, 9 and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and… 10 …
Song of Solomon 4:14–16
14 with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices. 15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Brea…
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