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Song of Solomon 4:12

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10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief 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.

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Cross references

  • Proverbs 5:15–18

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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  • Revelation 21:27

    And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:13

    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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  • Isaiah 61:10–11

    I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

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  • Revelation 7:3

    Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

    What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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  • 1 Corinthians 7:34

    There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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  • Jeremiah 31:12

    Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

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