Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 1:10
A church father on this verse
“Wishing to inspire a spirit of humility in her actions, the Word says this: "Your neck is as if circled with jewels." For just as he describes "the stiff neck" of the proud as "a sinew of iron" because of its stiffness, so too he describes the neck of a modest person as a necklace [with strings of jewels]. He thus des…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, Thy neck as chains!
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In context
8If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, Go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, And feed thy kids by the shepherds’ tents.
9I have likened thee, my companion, To my horses in the chariots of Pharaoh.
— Song of Solomon 1:10 —
11We will make thee figures of gold With studs of silver.
12So long as the king was at table, My spikenard gave forth its smell.