Bible Verses About Bride: Figurative

Listen, daughter! Think, pay attention! Forget your own people and your father's house,

and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your lord, so honor him.

Then the daughter of Tzor, the richest of peoples, will court your favor with gifts.

Inside [the palace], the king's daughter looks splendid, attired in checker-work embroidered with gold.

In brocade, she will be led to the king, to you, with the virgins in her retinue.

They will be led in with gladness and joy, they will enter the king's palace.

You will have sons to succeed your ancestors; you will make them princes in all the land.

I will make your name known through all generations; thus the peoples will praise you forever and ever.

"'Again I passed by you, looked at you and saw that your time had come, the time for love. So I spread my cloak over you to cover your private parts and entered into a covenant with you,' says Adonai ELOHIM, 'and you became mine.

Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with oil.

I also clothed you with an embroidered gown, gave you fine leather sandals to wear, put a fine linen headband on your head and covered you with silk.

I gave you jewelry to wear, bracelets for your hands, a necklace for your neck,

a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears and a beautiful crown for your head.

Thus you were decked out in gold and silver; your clothing was of fine linen, silk and richly embroidered cloth; you ate the finest flour, honey and olive oil. You grew increasingly beautiful - you were fit to be queen.

Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, because it was perfect, due to my having bestowed my own splendor on you' says Adonai ELOHIM.

“Let us rejoice and be glad! Let us give him the glory! For the time has come for the wedding of the Lamb, and his Bride has prepared herself —

fine linen, bright and clean has been given her to wear.” (“Fine linen” means the righteous deeds of God’s people.)