Songs 6:4 {3}
Good News Translation
My love, you are as beautiful as Jerusalem, as lovely as the city of Tirzah, as breathtaking as these great cities.

New Revised Standard Version
You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Contemporary English Version
My dearest, the cities of Tirzah and Jerusalem are not as lovely as you. Your charms are more powerful than all of the stars in the heavens.

New American Bible
Beautiful as Tirzah are you, my friend; fair as Jerusalem, fearsome as celestial visions!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.

beautiful

Songs 6:10 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?

Songs 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Songs 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Ezekiel 16:13,14 And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a queen. . . .

Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

as tirzah

1 Kings 14:17 And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

1 Kings 15:21,33 And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa. . . .

comedy

Psalm 48:2 With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

Lamentations 2:15 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?

Revelation 21:2 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

terrible

Songs 6:10 Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?

Numbers 24:5-9 How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel! . . .

Psalm 144:4-8 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. . . .

Zechariah 12:3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be rent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered together against her.

2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

Revelation 19:14-16 And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. . . .

Context
Together in the Garden
3I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the lilies. 4Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.5Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.…
Cross References
1 Kings 14:17
And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

Psalm 48:2
With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

Psalm 50:2
Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

Songs 1:5
Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.

Songs 1:15
Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

Songs 6:10
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?

Songs 6:3
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