Song of Songs 4:9

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.

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Other Translations

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
  • Song 5:1-2 : 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
  • Song 4:10 : 10 How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!
  • Gen 20:12 : 12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand; and he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
  • Prov 5:19-20 : 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love. 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Song 1:10 : 10 Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.
  • Song 1:15 : 15 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.
  • Song 3:11 : 11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his marriage, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
  • 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 was aware, my soul set me among the chariots of Amminadib.
  • Song 7:5-6 : 5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your locks. 6 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!
  • Song 7:10 : 10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you, and covered your nakedness; yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 And I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
  • Zeph 3:17 : 17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
  • Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.
  • 1 Cor 9:5 : 5 Do we not have the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Heb 2:11-14 : 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare Your name to my brethren, in the midst of the church I will sing praise to You. 13 And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God has given me. 14 Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil;
  • Rev 19:7-8 : 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • Rev 21:9-9 : 9 And there came to me one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 4:10-13
    4 verses
    88%

    10 How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!

    11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

    12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

    13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

  • Song 4:3-8
    6 verses
    83%

    3 Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is lovely: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.

    4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an armory, where hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

    5 Your two breasts are like two young deer that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

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

    7 You are all fair, my love; there is no spot in you.

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

    2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

  • 1 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have dove's eyes within your locks: your hair is like a flock of goats, appearing from Mount Gilead.

  • Song 1:7-10
    4 verses
    79%

    7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon. Why should I be like one who turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

    8 If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow the trail of the flock, and feed your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

    9 I have compared you, my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

    10 Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.

  • Song 1:13-16
    4 verses
    79%

    13 A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.

    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms in the vineyards of Engedi.

    15 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

    16 Behold, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant. Also, our bed is green.

  • Song 1:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

    3 Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, your name is like ointment poured out; therefore, the maidens love you.

    4 Draw me, we will run after you; the king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine; the upright love you.

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

    20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 6 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

    10 My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'

  • Song 6:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome 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, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am lovesick.

    9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you so charge us?

  • Song 7:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, flowing gently, causing the lips of those who are asleep to speak.

    10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

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

  • Song 3:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

    5 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that you do not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.

  • 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.

  • 4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes like the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

  • Song 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

    16 Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; blow upon my garden, that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

  • 16 His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • 9 My dove, my undefiled, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

  • 14 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.

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

  • Song 8:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand would embrace me.

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

  • 1 Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

  • 7 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the does of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken my love until he pleases.