Song of Solomon 4:3 (LSB)

Passage

Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

Nearby Context

Song of Solomon 4:1 “Behold, you are beautiful, my darling, Behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; Your hair is like a flock of goats That have leapt down from Mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes Which have come up from their washing, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.

Song of Solomon 4:3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David, Built with rows of stones On which are hung one thousand shields, All the small shields of the mighty men.

Song of Solomon 4:5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle Which feed among the lilies.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "lips", "like", "scarlet", "thread", "mouth", "lovely", and "temples". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "lips" and "like", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "Your teeth are like a flock of..." into verse 4's "Your neck is like the tower of...", so "lips" and "like" belong inside that flow. In Song of Solomon context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "lips" and "like" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.