Bible verse
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
Song of Solomon 5:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Song of Solomon 5.
8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
9 How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
10 My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
16 His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
KJV
His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
ASV
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
ERV
His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.
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