Song of Solomon 1:10
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
BSB
ASV
Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, Thy neck with strings of jewels.
KJV
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 1 (458)
"How beautifully made your cheeks, like those of a turtledove." Zoologists claim that the turtledove not only likes solitude but is also not promiscuous, the male mating with one female, and the female associating with one male, and at the death of its mate it …
Thy cheeks are comely - D’Arvieux has remarked that “the Arabian ladies wear a great many pearls about their necks and caps. They have golds chains about their necks which hang down upon their bosoms with strings of coloured gauze; the gauze itself bordered with zechins and other pieces of gold coin, which hang upon their foreheods and both cheeks.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 3:4but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
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Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the…
No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come…
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.
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Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
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I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.
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Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on…
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You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
