Songs 8:10
Good News Translation
I am a wall, and my breasts are its towers. My lover knows that with him I find contentment and peace.

New Revised Standard Version
I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.

Contemporary English Version
I am a wall around a city, my breasts are towers, and just looking at me brings him great pleasure.

New American Bible
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. I became in his eyes as one who brings peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.

a wall

Songs 8:9 If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.

my

Songs 4:5 Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Songs 7:3,4,7,8 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. . . .

Ezekiel 16:7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion.

then

Genesis 6:8 But Noe found grace before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:7,8 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: . . .

Proverbs 3:4 Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.

Isaiah 60:10 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.

Luke 1:30 And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.

Ephesians 1:6,8 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . .

1 Timothy 1:16 But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

favour

Romans 5:1-10 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: . . .

Context
Longing for Her Beloved
9If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar. 10I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.11The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:7
I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion.

Songs 8:11
The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.

Songs 8:9
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