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Selected Verse: Song of solomon 7:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| So 7:6 |
Strong Concordance |
How fair [03302] and how pleasant [05276] art thou, O love [0160], for delights [08588]! |
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King James |
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Nearer advance of the daughters to the Church (Act 2:47; Act 5:13, end). Love to her is the first token of love to Him (Jo1 5:1, end).
delights--fascinating charms to them and to the King (Sol 7:5; Isa 62:4, Hephzi-bah). Hereafter, too (Zep 3:17; Mal 3:12; Rev 21:9). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A brief dialogue; Sol 7:6-9 are spoken by the king, Sol 7:9 and Sol 7:10 by the bride.
Sol 7:6
A general sentiment.
How fair, and what a charm hast thou,
O love! Among delightsome things!
Compare Sol 2:7, note; Sol 8:6-7, note.
Sol 7:7
This thy stature - The king now addresses the bride, comparing her to palm, vine, and apple-tree for nobility of form and pleasantness of fruit; and the utterances of her mouth to sweetest wine.
Sol 7:9
For my beloved, that goeth down sweetly - Words of the bride interrupting the king, and finishing his sentence, that goeth smoothly or pleasantly for my beloved. Compare Pro 23:31.
Sol 7:10
His desire is toward me - All his affection has me for its object. The bride proceeds to exercise her power over his loving will. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
6 How beautiful art thou, and how charming,
O love, among delights!
It is a truth of all-embracing application which is here expressed. There is nothing more admirable than love, i.e., the uniting or mingling together of two lives, the one of which gives itself to the other, and so finds the complement of itself; nor than this self-devotion, which is at the same time self-enrichment. All this is true of earthly love, of which Walther v. d. Vogelweide says: "minne ist sweier herzen wnne" love is the joy of two hearts, and it is true also of heavenly love; the former surpasses all earthly delights (also such as are purely sensuous, Ecc 2:8), and the latter is, as the apostle expresses himself in his spiritual "Song of Songs," Co1 13:13, in relation to faith and hope, "greater than these," greater than both of them, for it is their sacred, eternal aim. In יפית it is indicated that the idea, and in נעמתּ that the eudaemonistic feature of the human soul attains its satisfaction in love. The lxx, obliterating this so true and beautiful a promotion of love above all other joys, translate ἐν ταῖς τρυφαῖς σου (in the enjoyment which thou impartest). The Syr., Jerome, and others also rob the Song of this its point of light and of elevation, by reading אהמה O beloved! instead of אהבה. The words then declare (yet contrary to the spirit of the Hebrew language, which knows neither אהוּמה nor אהוּמתי as vocat.) what we already read at Sol 4:10; while, according to the traditional form of the text, they are the prelude of the love-song, to love as such, which is continued in Sol 8:6. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Delights - For those various lovely features which, are in thee. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| How fair and how pleasant - Thou art every way beautiful, and in every respect calculated to inspire pleasure and delight. |
9 And [2532] there came [2064] unto [4314] me [3165] one of [1520] the seven [2033] angels [32] which [3588] had [2192] the seven [2033] vials [5357] full [1073] of the seven [2033] last [2078] plagues [4127], and [2532] talked [2980] with [3326] me [1700], saying [3004], Come hither [1204], I will shew [1166] thee [4671] the bride [3565], the Lamb's [721] wife [1135].
12 And all nations [01471] shall call you blessed [0833]: for ye shall be a delightsome [02656] land [0776], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635].
17 The LORD [03068] thy God [0430] in the midst [07130] of thee is mighty [01368]; he will save [03467], he will rejoice [07797] over thee with joy [08057]; he will rest [02790] in his love [0160], he will joy [01523] over thee with singing [07440].
4 Thou shalt no more be termed [0559] Forsaken [05800]; neither shall thy land [0776] any more be termed [0559] Desolate [08077]: but thou shalt be called [07121] Hephzibah [02657], and thy land [0776] Beulah [01166]: for the LORD [03068] delighteth [02654] in thee, and thy land [0776] shall be married [01166].
5 Thine head [07218] upon thee is like Carmel [03760], and the hair [01803] of thine head [07218] like purple [0713]; the king [04428] is held [0631] in the galleries [07298].
1 Whosoever [3956] believeth [4100] that [3754] Jesus [2424] is [2076] the Christ [5547] is born [1080] of [1537] God [2316]: and [2532] every one [3956] that loveth [25] him that begat [1080] loveth [25] him also [2532] that is begotten [1080] of [1537] him [846].
13 And [1161] of the rest [3062] durst [5111] no man [3762] join himself [2853] to them [846]: but [235] the people [2992] magnified [3170] them [846].
47 Praising [134] God [2316], and [2532] having [2192] favour [5485] with [4314] all [3650] the people [2992]. And [1161] the Lord [2962] added [4369] to the church [1577] daily [2596] [2250] such as should be saved [4982].
10 I am my beloved's [01730], and his desire [08669] is toward me.
31 Look [07200] not thou upon the wine [03196] when it is red [0119], when it giveth [05414] his colour [05869] in the cup [03563] [03599], when it moveth [01980] itself aright [04339].
9 And the roof of thy mouth [02441] like the best [02896] wine [03196] for my beloved [01730], that goeth [01980] down sweetly [04339], causing the lips [08193] of those that are asleep [03463] to speak [01680].
7 This thy stature [06967] is like [01819] to a palm tree [08558], and thy breasts [07699] to clusters [0811] of grapes.
6 Set [07760] me as a seal [02368] upon thine heart [03820], as a seal [02368] upon thine arm [02220]: for love [0160] is strong [05794] as death [04194]; jealousy [07068] is cruel [07186] as the grave [07585]: the coals [07565] thereof are coals [07565] of fire [0784], which hath a most vehement flame [07957].
7 Many [07227] waters [04325] cannot [03201] quench [03518] love [0160], neither can the floods [05104] drown [07857] it: if a man [0376] would give [05414] all the substance [01952] of his house [01004] for love [0160], it would utterly [0936] be contemned [0936].
7 I charge [07650] you, O ye daughters [01323] of Jerusalem [03389], by the roes [06643], and [0176] by the hinds [0355] of the field [07704], that ye stir not up [05782], nor awake [05782] my love [0160], till he please [02654].
6 How fair [03302] and how pleasant [05276] art thou, O love [0160], for delights [08588]!
10 I am my beloved's [01730], and his desire [08669] is toward me.
9 And the roof of thy mouth [02441] like the best [02896] wine [03196] for my beloved [01730], that goeth [01980] down sweetly [04339], causing the lips [08193] of those that are asleep [03463] to speak [01680].
6 How fair [03302] and how pleasant [05276] art thou, O love [0160], for delights [08588]!
7 This thy stature [06967] is like [01819] to a palm tree [08558], and thy breasts [07699] to clusters [0811] of grapes.
8 I said [0559], I will go up [05927] to the palm tree [08558], I will take hold [0270] of the boughs [05577] thereof: now also thy breasts [07699] shall be as clusters [0811] of the vine [01612], and the smell [07381] of thy nose [0639] like apples [08598];
9 And the roof of thy mouth [02441] like the best [02896] wine [03196] for my beloved [01730], that goeth [01980] down sweetly [04339], causing the lips [08193] of those that are asleep [03463] to speak [01680].
6 Set [07760] me as a seal [02368] upon thine heart [03820], as a seal [02368] upon thine arm [02220]: for love [0160] is strong [05794] as death [04194]; jealousy [07068] is cruel [07186] as the grave [07585]: the coals [07565] thereof are coals [07565] of fire [0784], which hath a most vehement flame [07957].
10 How fair [03302] is thy love [01730], my sister [0269], my spouse [03618]! how much better [02895] is thy love [01730] than wine [03196]! and the smell [07381] of thine ointments [08081] than all spices [01314]!
13 And [1161] now [3570] abideth [3306] faith [4102], hope [1680], charity [26], these [5023] three [5140]; but [1161] the greatest [3187] of these [5130] is charity [26].
8 I gathered [03664] me also silver [03701] and gold [02091], and the peculiar treasure [05459] of kings [04428] and of the provinces [04082]: I gat [06213] me men singers [07891] and women singers [07891], and the delights [08588] of the sons [01121] of men [0120], as musical instruments [07705] [07705], and that of all sorts.