Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

New American Standard Bible

How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves.”

King James Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Holman Bible

M How beautiful you are, my darling.
How very beautiful!
Your eyes are doves.

A Conservative Version

Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.

American Standard Version

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are as doves.

Amplified

(The Bridegroom)
“Behold, how beautiful you are, my darling,
Behold, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are dove’s eyes.”

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold thee fair, my friend; behold thee beautiful; thine eyes are doves'.

King James 2000

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved. Look! You [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] doves.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; you have doves' eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how fair art thou, my love, how fair art thou? Thou hast doves' eyes.

NET Bible

The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

New Heart English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.

The Emphasized Bible

HELo! thou art beautiful my fair one, lo! thou art beautiful, Thine eyes, are doves!

Webster

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

World English Bible

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, thou art fair, my friend, Lo, thou art fair, thine eyes are doves!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

my love
רעיה 
Ra`yah 
Usage: 9

behold, thou art fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

thou hast doves'
יונה 
Yownah 
Usage: 31

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Verse Info

Context Readings

Mutual Admiration

14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi. 15 Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling. Look at you! You are so beautiful. Your eyes are doves. 16 Look at you! You are handsome, my beloved, truly lovely. How lush is our couch.


Cross References

Song of Songs 4:1

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.

Song of Songs 5:12

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, bathed in milk, mounted like jewels.

Song of Songs 4:7

My darling, you are altogether beautiful and there is no blemish in you.

Song of Songs 1:8

If you don't know, most beautiful of women, go out after the flock and graze your young goats beside the shepherd's tents.

Song of Songs 2:10

My beloved spoke to me: "Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

Song of Songs 2:13

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.

Song of Songs 4:10

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.

Song of Songs 5:2

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."

Song of Songs 6:4

You are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah, lovely like Jerusalem, as awesome as an army with banners.

Song of Songs 7:6

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

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, "For what reason?' Because the LORD acts as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you were unfaithful to her, your partner, the wife of your covenant.

2 Corinthians 11:2-3

I am jealous of you with God's own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.

Ephesians 1:17-18

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the most glorious Father, would give you a wise spirit, along with revelation that comes through knowing the Messiah fully.

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