Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

New American Standard Bible

“How beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your charms!

King James Version

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Holman Bible

How beautiful you are and how pleasant,
my love, with such delights!

International Standard Version

How beautiful and lovely you are, you are love with its exquisite delights.

A Conservative Version

How fair and how pleasant thou are, O love, for delights!

American Standard Version

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Amplified


“How beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your delights!

Darby Translation

How fair and how pleasant art thou, my love, in delights!

Julia Smith Translation

How beautiful and how pleasant thou wert, O love, in delights!

King James 2000

How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for your delights!

Lexham Expanded Bible

How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the delights!

Modern King James verseion

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how fair and lovely art thou, my darling, in pleasures?

NET Bible

How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights!

New Heart English Bible

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights.

The Emphasized Bible

HEHow beautiful, and how delightful, O dear love, for delights:

Webster

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

World English Bible

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

Youngs Literal Translation

How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יפה 
Yaphah 
Usage: 8

נעם 
Na`em 
Usage: 8

art thou, O love
אהבה 
'ahabah 
Usage: 36

References

Hastings

Smith

Verse Info

Context Readings

Solomon Longs For The Young Woman's Affection

5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner. 6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight. 7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

Cross References

Song of Songs 1:15-16

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

Song of Songs 4:10

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

Psalm 45:11

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

Song of Songs 2:14

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

Song of Songs 4:7

You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

Song of Songs 7:10

I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

Isaiah 62:4-5

You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

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