Song of Solomon 4:4
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Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
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Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
And next to him, Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the Ascent to the Armory, near the angle in the wall.
He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.