9How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?


In Context

6 I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.

7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!

8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you- if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.

9 How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?

10 My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.

11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

Song of Solomon 5:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:9What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:9What 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so charge us?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:9What 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?