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Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That descend from Mount Gilead.

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Understanding the Imagery

Commentators explain the vivid imagery used to describe the bride's beauty. Her eyes, seen from behind her veil (a more accurate translation than the KJV's "locks"), are gentle like a dove's. Her dark, flowing hair is compared to a vast flock of goats moving along the lush slopes of Mount Gilead, a picture of abundance and natural beauty.

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Song Of Solomon

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Song Of Solomon 4:1

18th Century

Theologian

You have doves’ eyes ... - Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. So also in Song of Solomon 4:3,[Reference Song of Solomon 6…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Song Of Solomon 4:1

19th Century

Bishop

Locks. —Hebrew, tsammah, found elsewhere only in Song of Solomon 6:7 and Isaiah 47:2. The derivation, and the …

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

On Song Of Solomon 4:1

19th Century

Preacher

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Song of Solomon 1:15

"Twice fair, first, through being wa…

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John Gill

John Gill

On Song Of Solomon 4:1

17th Century

Pastor

Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair
The same as in (Song of Solomon 1:15); here repeated…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Song Of Solomon 4:1–7

17th Century

Minister

If each of these comparisons has a meaning applicable to the graces of the church, or of the faithful Christian, these meanings are not clearly kno…