12His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.


In Context

9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.

11 His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.

13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

14 His hands are as rings of gold set with beryl: His body is as ivory work overlaid with'sapphires.

Song of Solomon 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.