Song of Songs 5:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

His eyes are like doves by streams of water, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:15 : 15 Mutual Praise and AdmirationThe Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
  • Song 4:1 : 1 The Wedding Night: Praise of the Bride The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

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  • Song 5:13-16
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    81%

    13His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

    14His arms are like rods of gold set with chrysolite. His abdomen is like polished ivory inlaid with sapphires.

    15His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

    16His mouth is very sweet; he is totally desirable. This is my beloved! This is my companion, O maidens of Jerusalem!

  • Song 5:10-11
    2 verses
    81%

    10The Beloved to the Maidens: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy; he stands out in comparison to all other men.

    11His head is like the purest gold. His hair is curly– black like a raven.

  • Song 1:13-15
    3 verses
    80%

    13My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh spending the night between my breasts.

    14My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En Gedi.

    15Mutual Praise and AdmirationThe Lover to His Beloved: Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!

  • Song 4:1-7
    7 verses
    79%

    1The Wedding Night: Praise of the Bride The Lover to His Beloved: Oh, you are beautiful, my darling! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are like doves. Your hair is like a flock of female goats descending from Mount Gilead.

    2Your teeth are like a flock of newly-shorn sheep coming up from the washing place; each of them has a twin, and not one of them is missing.

    3Your lips are like a scarlet thread; your mouth is lovely. Your forehead behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

    4Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it– all shields of valiant warriors.

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

    6Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, I will go up to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!

  • Song 7:1-7
    7 verses
    77%

    1The Lover to His Beloved:(7:2) How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O nobleman’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a master craftsman.

    2Your navel is a round mixing bowl– may it never lack mixed wine! Your belly is a mound of wheat, encircled by lilies.

    3Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

    4Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

    5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries– the king is held captive in its tresses!

    6How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights!

    7The Palm Tree and the Palm Tree ClimberThe Lover to His Beloved: Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.

  • Song 6:5-7
    3 verses
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    5Turn your eyes away from me– they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

    6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin; not one of them is missing.

    7Like a slice of pomegranate is your forehead behind your veil.

  • Song 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9The Beautiful Mare and the Fragrant MyrrhThe Lover to His Beloved: O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh’s stallions.

    10Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

  • 14The Dove in the Clefts of En GediThe Lover to His Beloved: O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

  • 12His eyes will be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

  • 18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

  • 9My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.

  • 14His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.

  • Song 4:9-12
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    71%

    9You 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.

    10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

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

    12The Wedding Night: The Delightful GardenThe Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

  • 2The Trials of Love: The Beloved’s Dream of Losing Her LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved:“Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

  • 7The Shepherd and the ShepherdessThe Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions!

  • 7ז(Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli.

  • Song 6:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:

    10“Who is this who appears like the dawn? Beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awe-inspiring as the stars in procession?”

  • 24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • 9May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.

  • 5The Country Maiden and the Daughters of JerusalemThe Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

  • 2The Desire for LoveThe Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.

  • 10The Beloved: I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes.

  • 19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

  • 15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

  • 2It is like fine oil poured on the head which flows down the beard– Aaron’s beard, and then flows down his garments.