Song of Songs 6:4
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Cross-reference
Song of Solomon 6:10 repeats the phrase 'awesome as an army with banners' to describe the beloved, reinforcing the image.
Song of Solomon 1:9 compares the beloved to horses in Pharaoh's chariots — another martial simile, directly paralleling the army-with-banners imagery here.
Song of Solomon 2:4 mentions 'his banner over me was love' — both use banner imagery, but 2:4 is personal love while 6:4 is martial.
Song of Solomon 4:7 declares the beloved 'altogether beautiful, no blemish' — a similar affirmation of perfection.
Lamentations 2:15 mourns Jerusalem's lost beauty — contrasting with the lively, beautiful Jerusalem in this verse.
Ephesians 5:27 describes Christ presenting the church spotless and glorious — a New Testament typology of the beloved's perfect beauty.
Numbers 24:5-9 describes Israel's beauty and strength like gardens and a lion — parallel to the 'army with banners' image.
Revelation 19:14-16 depicts Christ leading armies with banners — echoing the 'army with banners' imagery used for the beloved's majesty here.
Revelation 21:2 pictures the new Jerusalem as a bride adorned — a later echo of the bride-city comparison here.
Zechariah 12:3 depicts Jerusalem as a burdensome stone — a different image of the city's power, similar to 'terrible as an army'.