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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 4</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//songs/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/songs/">Song</a> > Songs 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3">◄</a> Song of Solomon 4 <a href="../songs/5.htm" title="Song of Solomon 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/songs/4.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/songs/4.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/songs/4.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/songs/4.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/songs/4.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/songs/4.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/songs/4.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon Admires His Bride<p class="ihdg">The Bridegroom<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How beautiful you are, my darling—<p class="indent2"> how very beautiful! <p class="indent1"> Your eyes are like doves <p class="indent2"> behind your veil. <p class="indent1"> Your hair is like a flock of goats <p class="indent2"> streaming down Mount Gilead. <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep <p class="indent2"> coming up from the washing; <p class="indent1"> each has its twin, <p class="indent2"> and not one of them is lost. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, <p class="indent2"> and your mouth is lovely. <p class="indent1"> Your brow behind your veil <p class="indent2"> is like a slice of pomegranate. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your neck is like the tower of David, <p class="indent2"> built with rows of stones; <p class="indent1"> on it hang a thousand shields, <p class="indent2"> all of them shields of warriors. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your breasts are like two fawns, <p class="indent2"> twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, <p class="indent2"> I will make my way <p class="indent1"> to the mountain of myrrh <p class="indent2"> and to the hill of frankincense. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You are altogether beautiful, my darling; <p class="indent2"> in you there is no flaw. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, <p class="indent2"> come with me from Lebanon! <p class="indent1"> Descend<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> from the peak of Amana, <p class="indent2"> from the summits of Senir and Hermon, <p class="indent1"> from the dens of the lions, <p class="indent2"> from the mountains of the leopards. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have captured my heart, <p class="indent2"> my sister, my bride; <p class="indent1"> you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, <p class="indent2"> with one jewel of your neck. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How delightful is your love, <p class="indent2"> my sister, my bride! <p class="indent1"> Your love is much better than wine, <p class="indent2"> and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Your lips, my bride, <p class="indent2"> drip sweetness like the honeycomb; <p class="indent1"> honey and milk are under your tongue, <p class="indent2"> and the fragrance of your garments <p class="indent2"> is like the aroma of Lebanon. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, <p class="indent2"> a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates <p class="indent2"> with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard, <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, <p class="indent2"> with every kind of frankincense tree, <p class="indent1"> with myrrh and aloes, <p class="indent2"> with all the finest spices. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are a garden spring, <p class="indent2"> a well of fresh water<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> flowing down from Lebanon. <p class="ihdg">The Bride<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Awake, O north wind, <p class="indent2"> and come, O south wind. <p class="indent1"> Breathe on my garden <p class="indent2"> and spread the fragrance of its spices. <p class="indent1"> Let my beloved come into his garden <p class="indent2"> and taste its choicest fruits.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>Look down</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>flowing water</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>living water</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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