'Darling' in the Bible
My darling, I compare you to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.
Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.
Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the young women.
My beloved spoke to me: "Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.
The fig tree has produced its fruit, the grapevines have blossomed and exude their fragrance. "Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.
Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are doves, your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead.
My darling, you are altogether beautiful and there is no blemish in you.
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There's a sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open up for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
You are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah, lovely like Jerusalem, as awesome as an army with banners.
"Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? Indeed, as often as I've spoken about him, I surely still remember him. Therefore I deeply yearn for him. I'll surely have great compassion on him," declares the LORD.