New King James Version
Song of Songs 1:10
10Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains of gold.
Song of Songs 1:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
- New International Version (NIV)Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
- New Living Translation (NLT)How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels.
Context of Song of Songs 1:10
8If you do not know, O fairest among women, Follow in the footsteps of the flock, And feed your little goats Beside the shepherds’ tents. 9I have compared you, my love, To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains of gold. 11We will make you ornaments of gold With studs of silver. 12While the king is at his table, My spikenard sends forth its fragrance.
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נָאו֤וּ לְחָיַ֙יִךְ֙ בַּתֹּרִ֔ים צַוָּארֵ֖ךְ בַּחֲרוּזִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Commentaries on Song of Songs 1:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Thy cheeks are comely - D'Arvieux has remarked that "the Arabian ladies wear a great many pearls about their necks and caps. They have golds chains about their necks which hang down upon their bosoms with strings of coloured gauze; the gauze itself bordered with zechins and other pieces of gold coin, which hang upon their foreheods and both cheeks. The ordinary women wear small silver coins, with which they cover their forehead-piece like fish scales, as…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The Bridegroom gives high praises of his spouse. In the sight of Christ believers are the excellent of the earth, fitted to be instruments for promoting his glory. The spiritual gifts and graces which Christ bestows on every true believer, are described by the ornaments then in use, Song 1:10,11. The graces of the saints are many, but there is dependence upon each other. He who is the Author, will be the Finisher of the good work. The grace…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-11The woman's beauty shines with her jewelry. The man decides to give her more jewelry to enhance her beauty even further (compare Matthew 13:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. rows of jewels--(Eze 16:11-13). Olerius says, Persian ladies wear two or three rows of pearls round the head, beginning on the forehead and descending down to the cheeks and under the chin, so that their faces seem to be set in pearls (Eze 16:11). The comparison of the horses (So 1:9) implies the vital energy of the bride; this verse, her superadded graces (Pr 1:9; 4:9; 1Ti 2:9; 2Pe 1:5).Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 10Your cheeks are comely with rows rows of earrings and a golden forehead plate.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Song of Songs 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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