12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
12 His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.
12 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.
12 His eyes are like doves, soft and bright, but deep-set, brimming with meaning, like wells of water.
12 His eyes are like doves By the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, And fitly set.
12 His eyes sparkle like doves beside springs of water; they are set like jewels washed in milk.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Song of Solomon 5:12
Commentary on Song of Solomon 5:9-16
(Read Song of Solomon 5:9-16)
Even those who have little acquaintance with Christ, cannot but see amiable beauty in others who bear his image. There are hopes of those who begin to inquire concerning Christ and his perfections. Christians, who are well acquainted with Christ themselves, should do all they can to make others know something of him. Divine glory makes him truly lovely in the eyes of all who are enlightened to discern spiritual things. He is white in the spotless innocence of his life, ruddy in the bleeding sufferings he went through at his death. This description of the person of the Beloved, would form, in the figurative language of those times, a portrait of beauty of person and of grace of manners; but the aptness of some of the allusions may not appear to us. He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe. May his love constrain us to live to his glory.