Song of Songs 4:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou hast ravished my heart,{H3823} my sister,{H269} [my] bride;{H3618} Thou hast ravished my heart{H3823} with one{H259} of thine eyes,{H5869} With one{H259} chain{H6060} of thy neck.{H6677}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou hast ravished my heart{H3823}{(H8765)}, my sister{H269}, my spouse{H3618}; thou hast ravished my heart{H3823}{(H8765)} with one{H259} of thine eyes{H5869}, with one{H259} chain{H6060} of thy neck{H6677}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thou hast wouded my hert (o my sister, my spouse) thou hast wounded my hert, with one of thine eyes, and with one cheyne of thy neck.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    My sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded mine heart: thou hast wounded mine heart with one of thine eyes, and with a chaine of thy necke.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou hast with loue bewitched my heart O my sister my spouse, thou hast bewitched my heart with one of thyne eyes, and with one chayne of thy necke.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, `my' bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You 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!

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Referenced Verses

  • Song 4:12 : 12 A locked garden is my sister, my bride—an enclosed spring, a sealed fountain.
  • Song 5:1-2 : 1 I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love. 2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Song 4:10 : 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 Besides, she really is my sister—the daughter of my father though not of my mother—and she became my wife.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph's hand. He clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 All your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia; from ivory palaces, stringed instruments bring you joy.
  • Prov 5:19-20 : 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, and may you always be captivated by her love. 20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Song 1:10 : 10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
  • Song 1:15 : 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves.
  • Song 3:11 : 11 Come out, daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
  • Song 6:5 : 5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.
  • Song 6:12 : 12 Before I realized it, my desire set me among the chariots of my noble people.
  • Song 7:5-6 : 5 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, looking toward Damascus. 6 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the flowing locks of your hair are like royal purple. The king is captivated by its tresses.
  • Song 7:10 : 10 Your mouth is like the finest wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who are asleep.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband—the Lord of Hosts is His name. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of all the earth.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 Then I passed by you again and saw you, and behold, you were at the age for love. So I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I made my vow to you, entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; their names will no longer be remembered. 20 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that move along the ground. I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.
  • Zeph 3:17 : 17 The LORD your God is in your midst—a mighty warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will exult over you with joyful singing.
  • Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.
  • John 3:29 : 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.
  • 1 Cor 9:5 : 5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Heb 2:11-14 : 11 Both the One who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one Father. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying, 'I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing Your praise.' 13 And again, 'I will put my trust in Him.' And again, 'Here am I, and the children God has given Me.' 14 Since the children share in flesh and blood, He too likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death—that is, the devil.
  • Rev 19:7-8 : 7 Let us rejoice and be glad, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself. 8 It was granted to her to be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean. For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • Rev 21:9-9 : 9 Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me, saying, 'Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.' 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 4:10-13
    4 verses
    88%

    10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

    11 Your lips, my bride, drip honey like a honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

    12 A locked garden is my sister, my bride—an enclosed spring, a sealed fountain.

    13 Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard plants.

  • Song 4:3-8
    6 verses
    83%

    3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your speech is lovely. Your cheeks are like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil.

    4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with layers; a thousand shields hang on it, all the shields of mighty warriors.

    5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing among the lilies.

    6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.

    7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no blemish in you.

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summit of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions and the mountains of leopards.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love.

    2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."

  • 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

  • Song 1:7-10
    4 verses
    79%

    7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

    8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats near the shepherds' tents.

    9 I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

    10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

  • Song 1:13-16
    4 verses
    79%

    13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

    15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves.

    16 Behold, you are handsome, my beloved, truly delightful. Our bed is lush and green.

  • Song 1:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

    3 The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!

    4 Take me away with you—let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers. We will rejoice and be glad in you; we will celebrate your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you.

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, and may you always be captivated by her love.

    20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 6 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the flowing locks of your hair are like royal purple. The king is captivated by its tresses.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

    10 My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.'

  • Song 6:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my love, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army with banners.

    5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.

  • Song 5:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick.

    9 What makes your beloved better than another beloved, most beautiful among women? What makes your beloved better than another, that you should beg us so passionately?

  • Song 7:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 I said, 'I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its branches.' Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples.

    10 Your mouth is like the finest wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who are asleep.

  • 1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

  • Song 3:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

    5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the does of the field: do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases.

  • 14 Hurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

  • 4 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon.

    16 Awaken, north wind, and come, south wind! Breathe on my garden so that its spices may flow. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.

  • 16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

  • 9 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the darling of her mother, pure to the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.

  • 14 My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

  • 4 He brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.

  • Song 8:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

    4 I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, do not awaken or stir up love until it pleases.

  • 1 Oh, that you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

  • 7 I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the does of the field, not to awaken or stir up love until it pleases.