Song of Songs 1:16 Cross References - BBE

¹⁶ See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

² You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

³ As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

⁷ See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

¹⁰ My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand. ¹¹ His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed. ¹³ His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. ¹⁴ His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires. ¹⁵ His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree. ¹⁶ His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

⁸ Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, ⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; ¹² Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing. ¹³ And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever.