Bible in Basic English
"Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner."
— Song Of Solomon 7:5, Bible in Basic English
“Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.”
“Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof. ”
“Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.”
“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries– the king is held captive in its tresses!”
“Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.”
“Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.”
Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;