“Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Song of Solomon 7 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.