| Song of Solomon 1:16 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "How handsome you are, my beloved, And so pleasant! Indeed, our couch is luxuriant! (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Look at you! You are handsome, my beloved, so pleasing to me! The leaf-scattered ground will be our couch.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. |
| ASV: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green. |
| BBE: | See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green. |
| DBY: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green. |
| ERV: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our couch is green. |
| JPS: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy. |
| WBS: | Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed is green. |
| WEB: | Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. |
| YLT: | Lo, thou art fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch is green, |
| Song of Solomon 1:16 Cross References |
| XREF: | Song of Songs 2:3 "Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I took great delight and sat down, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Songs 2:9 "My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he is standing behind our wall, He is looking through the windows, He is peering through the lattice.
Song of Songs 5:2 "I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! My beloved was knocking: 'Open to me, my sister, my darling, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the damp of the night.'
Song of Songs 5:5 "I arose to open to my beloved; And my hands dripped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the bolt. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 1:16 Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our {u} bed [is] green.
(u) That is, the heart of the faithful, in which Christ dwells by his Spirit. |
| WES: | 1:16 Behold - The church here again speaks, and retorts Christ's words; thou, and thou only art fair indeed. Pleasant - As thou art beautiful in thyself, so thou art amiable and pleasant in thy condescention to me. Bed - This seems to denote the place where the church enjoys sweet fellowship with Christ, by his spirit accompanying his ordinances. Green - Is pleasant, as that colour to the eye. |
| MHC: | 1:9-17 The Bridegroom gives high praises of his spouse. In the sight of Christ believers are the excellent of the earth, fitted to be instruments for promoting his glory. The spiritual gifts and graces which Christ bestows on every true believer, are described by the ornaments then in use, ver. 10,11. The graces of the saints are many, but there is dependence upon each other. He who is the Author, will be the Finisher of the good work. The grace received from Christ's fulness, springs forth into lively exercises of faith, affection, and gratitude. Yet Christ, not his gifts, is most precious to them. The word translated camphire, signifies atonement or propitiation. Christ is dear to all believers, because he is the propitiation for their sins. No pretender must have his place in the soul. They resolved to lodge him in their hearts all the night; during the continuance of the troubles of life. Christ takes delight in the good work which his grace has wrought on the souls of believers. This should engage all who are made holy, to be very thankful for that grace which has made those fair, who by nature were deformed. The spouse (the believer) has a humble, modest eye, discovering simplicity and godly sincerity; eyes enlightened and guided by the Holy Spirit, that blessed Dove. The church expresses her value for Christ. Thou art the great Original, but I am but a faint and imperfect copy. Many are fair to look at, yet their temper renders them unpleasant: but Christ is fair, yet pleasant. The believer, ver. 16, speaks with praise of those holy ordinances in which true believers have fellowship with Christ. Whether the believer is in the courts of the Lord, or in retirement; whether following his daily labours, or confined on the bed of sickness, or even in a dungeon, a sense of the Divine presence will turn the place into a paradise. Thus the soul, daily having fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, enjoys a lively hope of an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance above. |
| CONC: | Beautiful Bed Behold Beloved Charming Couch Fair Green Handsome Indeed Leafy Love Loved Lovely Lover Luxuriant Oh Pleasant Pleasure Truly Verdant Yea Yes |
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