Bible Strands
Song of Solomon 6:4
You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses a "darling" (רַעְיָתִי) with comparative praise, situated between the mutual belonging declaration in Song 6:3 and the request to avert the beloved's gaze in Song 6:5.
The words — יָפָה (ya.Fah) translates literally as "beautiful," and אֲיֻמָּה ('a.yu.Mah) translates as "majestic." Both terms anchor the verse's structure, which measures the beloved against specific cities and military formations.
The thread — The descriptive pairing of earthly and martial majesty recurs in Song 6:10's celestial procession and Psalm 48:2's description of Mount Zion's loftiness.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to observe the deliberate use of Tirzah and Jerusalem as cultural benchmarks of beauty without importing extrabiblical historical claims about those cities.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
- Psalms 48:2 Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- 1 Kings 14:17 Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
- Psalms 50:2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
- Song of Solomon 4:7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Revelation 21:2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Numbers 24:5 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!
- 1 Kings 15:21 When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.