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Song of Solomon 1:3

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1 This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

4 Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.

5 I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

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BSB
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
KJV
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
WEB
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
ASV
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is [as] oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.
DARBY
Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.
BLB
Your oils [are] good for fragrance; your name [is] oil poured out; upon thus the maidens love you.
ÅB
Liflig er duften av dine salver, ditt navn er en utgytt salve; derfor elsker jomfruene deg.
OTB
Dine oljer har en behagelig duft, Ditt navn er som raffinert olje; Derfor setter de unge kvinnene pris på deg.
B1930
Liflig er duften av dine salver, ditt navn er en utgytt salve; derfor elsker jomfruene dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 7:1

    A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

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  • Exodus 30:23–28

    “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

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  • Song of Solomon 4:10

    How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

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  • John 12:3

    Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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  • Psalms 45:7–8

    You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

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  • Philippians 2:9–10

    Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

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  • Revelation 14:4

    These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

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  • 2 Corinthians 2:14–16

    But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

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