Song of Songs 8:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

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  • Ezek 16:7 : 7 And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.
  • Luke 1:30 : 30 And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.
  • Rom 5:1-9 : 1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; 4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us. 6 For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers. 7 Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life. 8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us. 9 Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him. 10 For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
  • Eph 1:8 : 8 Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.
  • Gen 6:8 : 8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
  • Prov 3:4 : 4 So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.
  • Song 4:5 : 5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
  • Song 7:3-4 : 3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth. 4 Your 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:
  • Song 7:7-8 : 7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. 8 I 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;
  • Isa 60:10 : 10 And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

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    8We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

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  • Song 4:4-6
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    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.

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

  • Song 7:2-4
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    2Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.

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

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  • Song 8:1-3
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    1Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

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    9My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

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

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

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

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    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

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    16My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

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    11Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.