Song of Solomon 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ His voice and speech are exceedingly sweet; yes, he is altogether lovely [the whole of him delights and is precious]. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem! [Ps. 92:15; Col. 1:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁶ His mouth is everything sweet, every bit of him desirable. This is my love, this my dearest, daughters of Jerusalem!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ His hands are smoothed gold, full of hyacinths. His abdomen is ivory, accented with sapphires.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 5:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 148:13

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 89:6

For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

Song of Solomon 1:16

Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;

Song of Solomon 1:2

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;

Song of Solomon 1:5

I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 2:1

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Song of Solomon 2:16

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 2:3

As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song of Solomon 4:3

Your lips are like a crimson thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:9

and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Jeremiah 3:20

Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

Galatians 2:20

and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

James 2:23

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.