like

Thy two breasts are like two yong Roes that are twinnes.

1611 marginal noteChap. 4.5

Thy necke is as a towre of yuory: thine eyes like the fish pooles in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.

Thine head vpon thee is like Carmel, and the haire of thine head like purple, the king is held in the galleries.

1611 marginal noteOr, crimson

1611 marginal noteHeb. bound

This thy stature is like to a palme tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

I said, I will goe vp to the palme tree, I will take hold of the boughes thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose, like apples.

And the roofe of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloued, that goeth downe sweetely, causing the lippes of those that are asleepe, to speake.

1611 marginal noteHebr. streightly.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the ancient.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found fauour.

1611 marginal noteHeb. peace

¶ Make haste, my beloued, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart vpon the mountaines of spices.

1611 marginal noteHeb. flee away.

Except the LORD of hostes had left vnto vs a very small remnant, we should haue beene as Sodom, and we should haue bene like vnto Gomorrah.

1611 marginal noteLam.3.22 rom. 9.29.

1611 marginal noteGen. 19.24.

Come now and let vs reason together, saith the LORD: though your sinnes be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimsin, they shall be as wooll.