10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
10 Pendant earrings line the elegance of your cheeks; strands of jewels illumine the curve of your throat.
10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with chains of gold.
10 How lovely are your cheeks; your earrings set them afire! How lovely is your neck, enhanced by a string of jewels.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Song of Solomon 1:10
Commentary on Song of Solomon 1:9-17
(Read Song of Solomon 1:9-17)
The Bridegroom gives high praises of his spouse. In the sight of Christ believers are the excellent of the earth, fitted to be instruments for promoting his glory. The spiritual gifts and graces which Christ bestows on every true believer, are described by the ornaments then in use, verse 16, speaks with praise of those holy ordinances in which true believers have fellowship with Christ. Whether the believer is in the courts of the Lord, or in retirement; whether following his daily labours, or confined on the bed of sickness, or even in a dungeon, a sense of the Divine presence will turn the place into a paradise. Thus the soul, daily having fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, enjoys a lively hope of an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance above.