Song of Songs 1:15

In 11 translations

BSB

How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

KJV

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.my love: or, my companion

WEB

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

ASV

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

LSV

Behold, you [are] beautiful, my friend, || Behold, you [are] beautiful, your eyes [are] doves!

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC1:14

Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.

GNV1:14

My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.

JPS

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

LXXE

Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

הִנָּ֤ךְ יָפָה֙ רַעְיָתִ֔י הִנָּ֥ךְ יָפָ֖ה עֵינַ֥יִךְ יוֹנִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ἰδοὺ εἶ καλὴ ἡ πλησίον μου, ἰδοὺ εἶ καλὴ· ὀφθαλμοί σου περιστεραί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Song of Songs 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
• Song of Songs 5:12His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
• Song of Songs 4:7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
• Ephesians 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him. I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope…
• 2 Corinthians 11:2–3I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be…
• Song of Songs 1:8If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
• Song of Songs 2:13The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
• Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
• Song of Songs 2:10My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
• Song of Songs 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
• Song of Songs 7:6How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
• Song of Songs 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Song of Songs 4:10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

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