4Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, where on there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.


In Context

1 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes within your locks: your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

2 Your 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.

3 Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.

4 Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, where on there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

5 Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Solomon 4:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck [is] like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Your neck is like the tower of David, built with elegance ; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields of the mighty men.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armoury: A thousand bucklers hang thereon, All shields of mighty men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all the shields of the mighty men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4As the tower of David is thy neck, built for an armoury, The chief of the shields are hung on it, All shields of the mighty.