Song of Songs 4:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 6:7 : 7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
  • Josh 2:18 : 18 If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house;
  • Song 5:16 : 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.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.
  • Lev 14:4 : 4 Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.
  • Lev 14:6 : 6 And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.
  • Lev 14:49-52 : 49 And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop; 50 And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water; 51 And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times. 52 And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.
  • Num 4:8 : 8 And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.
  • Num 19:6 : 6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
  • Ps 37:30 : 30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.
  • Ps 45:2 : 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.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
  • Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value. 21 The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
  • Prov 16:21-24 : 21 The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased. 22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour. 23 The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips. 24 Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
  • Prov 31:26 : 26 Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
  • Song 5:13 : 13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • Song 7:9 : 9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
  • Ezek 16:63 : 63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
  • Matt 12:35 : 35 The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
  • Luke 4:22 : 22 And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?
  • 2 Cor 5:18-21 : 18 But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; 19 That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. 21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
  • Col 3:16-17 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
  • Heb 9:19 : 19 For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 6:4-7
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    4You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

    5Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

    6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

    7Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.

  • Song 4:4-13
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    82%

    4Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

    5Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

    6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

    8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

    9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

    11Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

    12A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

    13The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

  • Song 7:1-9
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    81%

    1How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:

    2Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.

    3Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.

    4Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

    5Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

    6How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

    7You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

    8I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

    9And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

  • Song 4:1-2
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    1See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

    2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

  • Song 5:10-16
    7 verses
    80%

    10My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.

    11His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

    12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.

    13His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

    14His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

    15His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

    16His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 1:9-11
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    9I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

    10Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

    11We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

  • Ps 45:2
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    2You 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.

  • Song 1:2-5
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    2Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

    3Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

    4Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

    5I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

  • Song 1:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

    15See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.

  • Song 4:15
    72%

    15You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Prov 4:9
    71%

    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

  • Prov 5:3
    71%

    3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

  • Song 6:10
    71%

    10Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Lam 4:7
    71%

    7Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:

  • Prov 6:25
    70%

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Ezek 16:12
    70%

    12And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.