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Song of Solomon 4:12

MarriageFaithfulness and loyaltyPurityLove for others

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.

11 Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

13 Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

14 with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.

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BSB
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
KJV
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
WEB
My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
ASV
A garden shut up is my sister, [my] bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
DARBY
A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
BLB
A garden locked up [is] my sister, my bride—a spring locked up, a fountain sealed.
ÅB
En lukket have er min søster, min brud, et avstengt vell, en forseglet kilde.
OTB
En lukket hage er min søster, min brud, En lukket brønn, en forseglet kilde.
B1930
En lukket have er min søster, min brud, et avstengt vell, en forseglet kilde.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Proverbs 5:15–18

    Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

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  • Revelation 21:27

    But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:13

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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  • Isaiah 61:10–11

    I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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  • Revelation 7:3

    “Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:34

    and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

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  • Jeremiah 31:12

    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

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