Verse List for SNG 1:16

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B I ◄ ← Sng 1:16 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=The bride (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Look at you. You’re handsome, my dearest, truly pleasant. ⇔ Indeed, our couch is comfortable.

OET-LV Here_you[fn][fn] are_beautiful my _lover _of_my also pleasant also couch _of_our is_luxuriant.

ULT Behold you! You are handsome, my beloved, truly pleasant. ⇔ Indeed, our couch is leafy.

UST You whom I love, you are very good-looking, ⇔  you are delightful! ⇔  The green grass will be like a bed where we lie down.

BSB & MSB How handsome [you are], my beloved! ⇔  Oh, how delightful! ⇔  The soft grass [is] our bed.

OEB No OEB SNG book available

WEBBE & WMBB Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; ⇔  and our couch is verdant.

NET Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! ⇔ Oh, how delightful you are! ⇔ The lush foliage is our canopied bed;

LSV Behold, you [are] beautiful, my love, indeed, pleasant,
Indeed, our bed [is] green,

FBV And you, my love, are so handsome—how charming you are! The green grass is our bed,

T4T You who love me, you are very delightful/handsome, ⇔  you are wonderful! ⇔  This green grass will be like a couch where we lie down.

LEB • Look! You are beautiful, my beloved,
• truly pleasant.
• Truly our couch is verdant ;[fn]

BBE See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

Moff And how fair you are, my dar- ling, ⇔  oh how sweet! ⇔ Our bed of love is the green sward,

JPS Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.

ASV ⇔  Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: ⇔ Also our couch is green.

DRA The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.

YLT Lo, thou [art] fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch [is] green,

Drby Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.

RV Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our couch is green.
(Behold, thou/you art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our couch is green.)

SLT Behold thee beautiful, my beloved, also pleasant: also our bed is green.

Wbstr Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed is green.

KJB-1769 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
(Behold, thou/you art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.)

KJB-1611 Behold, thou art faire, my beloued; yea pleasant: also our bedde is greene.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps O howe fayre art thou my beloued, howe well fauoured art thou? Our bed is dect with flowres,
(Oh how fair art thou/you my beloved, how well-favoured art thou? Our bed is decked with flowres,)

Gnva The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.
(The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters are of fir.)

Cvdl O how fayre art thou (my beloued) how well fauored art thou? Oure bed is decte with floures,
(Oh how fair art thou/you (my beloved) how well-favoured art thou? Our bed is decked with floures,)

Wycl The trees of oure housis ben of cedre; oure couplis ben of cipresse.
(The trees of our houses been of cedar; our couplis been of cypress.)

Luth Siehe, mein Freund, du bist schön und lieblich. Unser Bett grünet.
(See/Look, my friend, you(sg) are beautiful and lovely/delightful. Our bed green.)

ClVg Tigna domorum nostrarum cedrina, laquearia nostra cypressina.][fn]
(Tigna of_houses of_ours cedar, ceiling our cypressina.])

UHB הִנְּ⁠ךָ֨ יָפֶ֤ה דוֹדִ⁠י֙ אַ֣ף נָעִ֔ים אַף־עַרְשֵׂ֖⁠נוּ רַעֲנָנָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἰδοὺ εἶ καλὸς ἀδελφιδός μου, καί γε ὡραῖος πρὸς κλίνῃ ἡμῶν σύσκιος·

BrTr Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.