'Beauty' in the Bible

You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

“Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!How have the mighty fallen!

to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown in order to display her beauty to the people and the princes, for she was beautiful.

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,To behold the beauty of the LordAnd to meditate in His temple.

Then the King will desire your beauty.Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God has shone forth.

Splendor and majesty are before Him,Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

“She will place on your head a garland of grace;She will present you with a crown of beauty.”

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;Instead of a belt, a rope;Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;And branding instead of beauty.

And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,To despise all the honored of the earth.

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the fertile valleyOf those who are overcome with wine!

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,Which is at the head of the fertile valley,Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer,Which one sees,And as soon as it is in his hand,He swallows it.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;They will behold a far-distant land.

Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.

You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,And a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

All who pass along the wayClap their hands in derision at you;They hiss and shake their headsAt the daughter of Jerusalem,“Is this the city of which they said,‘The perfection of beauty,A joy to all the earth’?”

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

“But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;Your builders have perfected your beauty.

The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,The most ruthless of the nations.And they will draw their swordsAgainst the beauty of your wisdomAnd defile your splendor.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“You had the seal of perfection,Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.I cast you to the ground;I put you before kings,That they may see you.

‘The cedars in God’s garden could not match it;The cypresses could not compare with its boughs,And the plane trees could not match its branches.No tree in God’s garden could compare with it in its beauty.

‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

His shoots will sprout,And his beauty will be like the olive treeAnd his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.