Song of Solomon 1:8

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Song of Solomon 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

7 Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

8 If 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.

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

10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

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Song of Solomon 1:15

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

Song of Solomon 2:10

My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

Song of Solomon 4:1

How 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 Solomon 4:7

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

Song of Solomon 4:10

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

Song of Solomon 5:9

How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

Song of Solomon 6:1

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

Song of Solomon 6:4

You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

Song of Solomon 6:5

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

Song of Solomon 6:6

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

Song of Solomon 6:7

Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 6:8

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

Song of Solomon 6:9

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.

Song of Solomon 6:10

Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

Song of Solomon 7:1

How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.

Song of Solomon 7:2

Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:3

Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.

Song of Solomon 7:5

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

Song of Solomon 7:6

How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

Song of Solomon 7:7

Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.

Song of Solomon 7:8

I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,

Song of Solomon 7:9

and your mouth like the finest wine.

Song of Solomon 7:10

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

Song of Solomon 7:11

Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.

Song of Solomon 7:12

Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

Song of Solomon 7:13

The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

Psalms 16:3

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

Psalms 45:11

and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord.

Psalms 45:13

All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.

Ephesians 5:27

and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

Revelation 19:8

She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

1 Corinthians 11:1

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Hebrews 6:12

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Hebrews 11:11

By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Hebrews 11:14

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

Hebrews 11:18

even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

Hebrews 11:19

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Hebrews 11:20

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

Hebrews 11:21

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

Hebrews 11:22

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his bones.

Hebrews 11:23

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.

Hebrews 11:24

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

Hebrews 11:25

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

Hebrews 11:26

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.

Hebrews 11:29

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.

Hebrews 11:30

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

Hebrews 11:31

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

Hebrews 11:32

And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

Hebrews 11:33

who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

Hebrews 11:35

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Hebrews 11:36

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

Hebrews 11:38

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

Hebrews 11:39

These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

Hebrews 11:40

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

James 2:21

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

James 2:25

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

James 5:10

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 3:6

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

John 21:15

When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”