The Song of Solomon 4
- 1You are fair, my love. You are fair. You have doves' eyes within your locks. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
- 2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing, of which every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
- 3Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is beautiful: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.
- 4Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand shields, all shields of mighty men.
- 5Your two breasts are like two young deer that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- 6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
- 7You are all fair, my love. There is no spot in you.
- 8Come 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.
- 9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my spouse. You have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
- 10How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! How much better is your love than wine! And the smell of your ointments than all spices!
- 11Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue, and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- 12A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
- 13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, henna, with pure nard perfume,
- 14Pure nard perfume and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
- 15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
- 16Awake, O north wind, and come, you south. Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of The Song of Solomon 4 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
GIGAKJVYou are fair, my love. You are fair. You have doves' eyes within your locks. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
KJVThy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
GIGAKJVYour teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing, of which every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
KJVThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
GIGAKJVYour lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is beautiful: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.
KJVThy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
GIGAKJVYour neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand shields, all shields of mighty men.
KJVThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
GIGAKJVYour two breasts are like two young deer that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
KJVThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
GIGAKJVYou are all fair, my love. There is no spot in you.
KJVCome 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.
GIGAKJVCome 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.
KJVThou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
GIGAKJVYou have stolen my heart, my sister, my spouse. You have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
KJVHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
GIGAKJVHow fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! How much better is your love than wine! And the smell of your ointments than all spices!
KJVThy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
GIGAKJVYour lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue, and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
KJVA garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
GIGAKJVA garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
KJVThy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
GIGAKJVYour plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, henna, with pure nard perfume,
KJVSpikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
GIGAKJVPure nard perfume and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
KJVAwake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
GIGAKJVAwake, O north wind, and come, you south. Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
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