New Revised Standard Version
Your lips are like a crimson thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Contemporary English Version
Your lips are crimson cords, your mouth is shapely; behind your veil are hidden beautiful rosy cheeks.

New American Bible
Like a scarlet strand, your lips, and your mouth—lovely! Like pomegranate halves, your cheeks behind your veil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.

Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.

lips

Songs 4:11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Songs 5:13,16 His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh. . . .

Songs 7:9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth to ruminate.

Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.

Psalm 45:2 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

Psalm 119:13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

Proverbs 10:13,20,21 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion. . . .

Proverbs 16:21-24 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things. . . .

Matthew 12:35 A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Luke 4:22 And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

2 Corinthians 5:18-21 But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. . . .

Ephesians 4:29 Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

Colossians 3:16,17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. . . .

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

scarlet

Leviticus 14:4,6,49-52 Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. . . .

Numbers 4:8 And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

Numbers 19:6 The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.

Joshua 2:18 If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into thy house.

Proverbs 31:26 She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

thy temples

Songs 6:7 Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee.

Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Ezra 9:6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.