Song of Solomon 7:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.”
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“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Song of Solomon 7:5 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.”
- Numbers 21:26Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
- 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.
- Song of Solomon 1:17The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- 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 4:4Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
- Song of Solomon 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Revelation 1:14The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
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