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Song of Solomon 1:16
Song of Solomon 1:16 is verse 16 of Song of Solomon chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
King James Version
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
World English Bible
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.
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Song of Solomon 1:14–17 · Berean Standard Bible
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Song of Solomon 2:3Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 5:10My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
Song of Solomon 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
Song of Solomon 5:12His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
Song of Solomon 5:14His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
Song of Solomon 5:15His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
Song of Solomon 5:16His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Psalms 45:2You are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips, since God has blessed you forever.
Zechariah 9:17How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
Revelation 5:11Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
Revelation 5:12In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
Revelation 5:13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
Song of Solomon 3:7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.
Psalms 110:3Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.