Parallel Verses
Amplified
(The Bridegroom)
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”
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.
A Conservative Version
Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.
American Standard Version
Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.
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 [fragrant] vineyards of
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”
“Behold, how fair and handsome you are, my beloved;
And so delightful!
Our arbor is green and luxuriant.
Cross References
Song of Songs 4:1
(The Bridegroom)
How very beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil are like those of a dove;
Your hair is like [the shimmering black fleece of] a flock of [Arabian] goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead [beyond the Jordan].
Song of Songs 5:12
“His eyes are like doves
Beside streams of water,
Bathed in milk
And reposed in their setting.
Song of Songs 4:7
“O my love, you are altogether beautiful and fair.
There is no flaw nor blemish in you!
Song of Songs 1:8
(The Bridegroom)
“If you do not know [where your lover is],
O you fairest among women,
Run along, follow the tracks of the flock,
And pasture your young goats
By the tents of the shepherds.
Song of Songs 2:10
“My beloved speaks and says to me,
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away.
Song of Songs 2:13
‘The fig tree has budded and ripens her figs,
And the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away [to climb the rocky steps of the hillside].’”
Song of Songs 4:10
“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my [promised] bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
And the fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of balsam and spices.
Song of Songs 5:2
(The Shulammite Bride)
“I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
A voice [in my dream]! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,
My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is drenched with the [heavy night] dew;
My hair [is covered] with the dampness of the night.’
Song of Songs 6:4
(The Bridegroom)
“You are as beautiful as
As lovely as Jerusalem,
As majestic as an army with banners!
Song of Songs 7:6
“How beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your delights!
Malachi 2:14
But you say, “Why [does He reject it]?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your marriage companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your vows].
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy because I have promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-18
[I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son].