Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.
New American Standard Bible
Your
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.
American Standard Version
Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as 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 to me a cluster of henna-flowers in the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves. 16 Behold, thou are fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant. Also our couch is green.
Cross References
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 spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Song of Songs 2:13
The fig tree ripens 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 6:4
Thou are fair, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, sublime as an army with banners.
Song of Songs 7:6
How fair and how pleasant thou are, O love, for delights!
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-18
So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him,