Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Holman Bible
a locked garden
International Standard Version
My sister, my bride, is a locked garden a locked rock garden, a sealed up spring.
American Standard Version
A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Amplified
“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.
Darby Translation
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Julia Smith Translation
A garden shut up, my sister, O bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain sealed.
King James 2000
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A garden locked [is] my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
Modern King James verseion
A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked up, a fountain sealed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
NET Bible
The Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.
New Heart English Bible
A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
The Emphasized Bible
A garden barred, is my sister, bride, - a spring barred, a fountain sealed:
Webster
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
World English Bible
A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
Youngs Literal Translation
A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.
Themes
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (sealed up,) of the church
Gardens » Illustrative » (enclosed,) of the pleasantness, fruitfulness, and security of the church
Hedges » Placed around » Gardens
Names » Of the church » Spouse of Christ
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Locked Garden Of Delights Is Unlocked
11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon. 12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped. 13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15-18
Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Genesis 29:3
And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.
Song of Songs 6:2
My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
Song of Songs 6:11
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
Isaiah 61:10-11
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
Jeremiah 31:12
So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
1 Corinthians 7:34
And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
2 Corinthians 1:22
And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.
Ephesians 1:13
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,
Ephesians 4:30
And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.
Revelation 7:3
Do no damage to the earth, or the sea, or the trees, till we have put a mark on the servants of our God.
Revelation 21:27
And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.