Song of Songs 1:9

In 11 translations

BSB

I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

KJV

I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.

WEB

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

ASV

I have compared thee, O my love, To a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

LSV

To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared you, my friend,

YLT

To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared thee, my friend,

DBY

I compare thee, my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

DRC1:8

To my company of horsemen, in Pharao’s chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

GNV1:8

I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh.

JPS

I have compared thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

LXXE

I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לְסֻסָתִי֙ בְּרִכְבֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה דִּמִּיתִ֖יךְ רַעְיָתִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Τῇ ἵππῳ μου ἐν ἅρμασε Φαραὼ ὡμοίωσά σε ἡ πλησίον μου.

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• Song of Songs 2:10My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
• 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.”
• John 15:14–15You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My…
• Song of Songs 1:15How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
• Song of Songs 4:7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
• 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.”
• Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
• Song of Songs 2:2Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
• 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.
• 2 Chronicles 1:14–17Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as…
• Song of Songs 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
• 1 Kings 10:28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

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