Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Song of Solomon 5:13

Love for others

11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.

15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

Read the whole chapter

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
KJV
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
WEB
His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
ASV
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, [As] banks of sweet herbs: His lips are [as] lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
DARBY
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
BLB
His cheeks [are] like a bed of spice, towers of perfume. His lips lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
ÅB
Hans kinner er som velluktende blomstersenger, som det vokser krydderurter i; hans lepper er som liljer, de drypper av flytende myrra.
OTB
Hans kinn er som en hagebed av balsam, Bakker av duftende urter; Hans lepper er liljer Dryppende med flytende myrra.
B1930
Hans kinner er som velluktende blomstersenger, som det vokser krydderurter i; hans leber er som liljer, de drypper av flytende myrra.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references