Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries -- the king is held captive in its tresses!
New American Standard Bible
And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;
The king is captivated by your tresses.
King James Version
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Holman Bible
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive
International Standard Version
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your flowing locks are like purple, and a king could be captured in the dangling tresses.
A Conservative Version
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple. The king is held captive in the tresses.
American Standard Version
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof .
Amplified
“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
And the flowing hair of your head like purple threads;
I, the king, am held captive by your
Bible in Basic English
Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
Darby Translation
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by thy ringlets!
Julia Smith Translation
Thy head upon thee as Carmel, and the locks of thy head as purple; the King being bound in curls.
King James 2000
Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your tresses.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Your head crowns you like Carmel}; the flowing locks of your head [are] like {purple tapestry}; a king is held captive in the tresses!
Modern King James verseion
Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple cloth; the King is held captive in its tresses.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That head that standeth upon thee is like Carmel; the hair of thy head is like the king's purple folden up in plates.
New Heart English Bible
Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
The Emphasized Bible
Thy head upon thee, is like Carmel, And, the hair of thy head, is like purple, - The king, is held captive by the ringlets!
Webster
Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
World English Bible
Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!
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Ro'sh
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 7:5
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Context Readings
Solomon's Praise Of His Dancing Maiden
4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries -- the king is held captive in its tresses! 6 How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights!
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Cross References
Isaiah 35:2
Let it richly bloom; let it rejoice and shout with delight! It is given the grandeur of Lebanon, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the grandeur of the Lord, the splendor of our God.
Song of Songs 4:1
The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.
Genesis 32:26
Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." "I will not let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."
Psalm 68:24
They see your processions, O God -- the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor.
Psalm 87:2
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Song of Songs 1:17
the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
Song of Songs 5:11
His head is like the most pure gold. His hair is curly -- black like a raven.
Micah 7:14
Shepherd your people with your shepherd's rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them."
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Ephesians 1:22
And God put all things under Christ's feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.
Ephesians 4:15-16
But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
Colossians 1:18
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
Colossians 2:19
He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Revelation 1:14
His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.