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Song of Solomon 7:5
Song of Solomon 7:5 is verse 5 of Song of Solomon chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
King James Version
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
World English Bible
Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
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Song of Solomon 7:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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.
5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
7 Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
Ephesians 4:15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
Ephesians 4:16From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Colossians 1:18And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
Colossians 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
Micah 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Song of Solomon 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 Solomon 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
Revelation 1:14The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Genesis 32:26Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Psalms 68:24They have seen Your procession, O God— the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.
Psalms 87:2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”