Song of Songs 4:3
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon,
What it says
He likens her lips to scarlet ribbon and her temples to pomegranate halves.
What it is doing
This verse highlights color, speech, and beauty together.
In context
1How beautiful you are, my darling— 2Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep 3Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, 4Your neck is like the tower of David, 5Your breasts are like two fawns, 6Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, 7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; 8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, 9You have captured my heart, 10How delightful is your love, 11Your lips, my bride, 12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, 13Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates 14with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, 15You are a garden spring,