5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.


In Context

2 Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.

3 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.

6 How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights!

7 Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.

Song of Solomon 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by thy ringlets!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.