Songs 5:9
Good News Translation
Most beautiful of women, is your lover different from everyone else? What is there so wonderful about him that we should give you our promise?

New Revised Standard Version
What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?

Contemporary English Version
Most beautiful of women, why is the one you love more special than others? Why do you ask us to tell him how you feel?

New American Bible
How does your lover differ from any other lover, most beautiful among women? How does your lover differ from any other, that you adjure us so?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What 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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What 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?

what is

Isaiah 53:2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:

Matthew 16:13-17 And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? . . .

Matthew 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this?

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

2 Corinthians 4:3-6 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, . . .

o thou

Songs 1:8 To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

Songs 6:1,9,10 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee? . . .

Psalm 45:13 All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders,

Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love. 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?10My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.…
Cross References
Songs 1:8
To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

Songs 2:7
I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.

Songs 6:1
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?

Songs 5:8
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