Song of Solomon 1:15 “How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes a…”

Song of Solomon 1:15

How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.

World English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

American Standard Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.

Geneva Bible 1599

My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:

Darby Translation

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, thou [art] fair, my friend, Lo, thou [art] fair, thine eyes [are] doves!

Bible in Basic English

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

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Cross references

“thou art fair”

Song of Solomon 4:1 Song of Solomon 5:12 Song of Solomon 4:7 Song of Solomon 1:8 Song of Solomon 4:10 Song of Solomon 7:6

Song of Solomon 4:1 · BSB

How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 5:12 · BSB

His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

Song of Solomon 4:7 · BSB

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

Song of Solomon 1:8 · BSB

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

Song of Solomon 4:10 · BSB

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.

Song of Solomon 7:6 · BSB

How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

“my love”

Malachi 2:14

Malachi 2:14 · BSB

Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

“thou hast”

2 Corinthians 11:2 2 Corinthians 11:3 Ephesians 1:17 Ephesians 1:18

2 Corinthians 11:2 · BSB

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3 · BSB

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

Ephesians 1:17 · BSB

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

Ephesians 1:18 · BSB

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Also

Song of Solomon 6:4 Song of Solomon 5:2 Song of Solomon 2:10 Song of Solomon 2:13

Song of Solomon 6:4 · BSB

You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

Song of Solomon 5:2 · BSB

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Song of Solomon 2:10 · BSB

My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

Song of Solomon 2:13 · BSB

The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.

16How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.

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