Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Holman Bible
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.
International Standard Version
Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.
A Conservative Version
Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.
Amplified
(The Bridegroom)
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”
Bible in Basic English
See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.
Darby Translation
Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold thee fair, my friend; behold thee beautiful; thine eyes are doves'.
King James 2000
Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved. Look! You [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] doves.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; you have doves' eyes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O how fair art thou, my love, how fair art thou? Thou hast doves' eyes.
NET Bible
The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
New Heart English Bible
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.
The Emphasized Bible
HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves!
Webster
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 doves. Beloved
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, thou art fair, my friend, Lo, thou art fair, thine eyes are doves!
Interlinear
Yapheh
Yapheh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 1:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Admiration
14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves. 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green.
Cross References
Song of Songs 4:1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves behind thy veil. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead.
Song of Songs 5:12
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
Song of Songs 4:7
Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.
Song of Songs 1:8
If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents.
Song of Songs 2:10
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Songs 2:13
The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Songs 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!
Song of Songs 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh,'saying , Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Song of Songs 6:4
Thou art fair, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners.
Song of Songs 7:6
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-18
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;