Song of Solomon 4:3
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks is part of one of the one thousand and five songs or poems Solomon wrote. It is formed as a dialogue between various parties. It uses vivid, warm, figurative Oriental language belonging to an Oriental love poem of its own time. Its imagery carries no objection when read in the setting of the time when it was written.
It is a poetical picture or parable of Christ and His church concerning their love. It shows His wonderful love and hers in response, though hers is often wanting in faithfulness and constancy, and it is to be read alone with God with that thought in mind. Beyond that general meaning, no further explanation is given of this verse's particular images.
The verse gives the description of a perfect woman, showing that shining, well-dressed hair framing the face is the glory of women. It therefore means keeping plenty of hairpins on hand so the hair does not end in a twist and a knob behind the head. It means each woman finding how her hair looks best as a frame for her face and spending five minutes twice a day dressing it becomingly. That care blesses husband, children, and the whole home life.