Songs 1:10
Good News Translation
Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.

New Revised Standard Version
Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Contemporary English Version
Earrings add to your beauty, and you wear a necklace of precious stones.

New American Bible
Your cheeks lovely in pendants, your neck in jewels.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

thy cheeks

Genesis 24:22,47 And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight. . . .

Isaiah 3:18-21 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and little moons, . . .

Ezekiel 16:11-13 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck. . . .

2 Peter 1:3,4 As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue. . . .

thy neck

Songs 4:9 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

Genesis 41:42 And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.

Numbers 31:50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

Proverbs 1:9 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

1 Peter 3:4 But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
9Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels. 10We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.11While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:53
And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother.

Songs 1:11
While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.

Songs 5:13
His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

Songs 1:9
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