Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Hairs » Black, particularly esteemed
Love to Christ » His personal excellence is deserving of
What is thy beloved above the beloved, O beautiful one among women? What thy beloved above the beloved, that thou didst thus adjure us? My beloved is white and ruddy, bearing the standard of ten thousand. His head purified gold, his locks waving branches, black as a raven. read more.
His eyes as doves upon channels of waters washed with milk, sitting upon fulness. His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh. His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires. His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
His eyes as doves upon channels of waters washed with milk, sitting upon fulness. His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh. His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires. His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Preciousness of Christ » Illustrated
As the apple among the trees of the forest, so my beloved between the sons. In his shadow I delighted, and I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.
Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field. Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, a wholesale merchant, seeking beautiful pearls: Who, finding one pearl of great value, having departed, he sold all things which he had, and purchased it.
My beloved is white and ruddy, bearing the standard of ten thousand. His head purified gold, his locks waving branches, black as a raven. His eyes as doves upon channels of waters washed with milk, sitting upon fulness. read more.
His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh. His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires. His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh. His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires. His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Raven » Bird » Black » Carnivorous
The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it