Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A garden shut up, my sister, O bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain sealed.
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.
Bible in Basic English
A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
Darby Translation
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring 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 Thy lips will drop honey droppings, O bride: honey and milk under thy tongue, and the odor of thy garments as the odor of Lebanon. 12 A garden shut up, my sister, O bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Thy sendings forth a park of pomegranates, with most precious fruits, cypresses with spikenards,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well.
Genesis 29:3
And they gather there all the flocks; and they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep, and turned back the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place.
Song of Songs 6:2
My beloved went down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Songs 6:11
I went down into the garden of nuts to look upon the greens of the valley, to see whether the vine was fruitful, whether the pomegranates blossomed.
Isaiah 58:11
And Jehovah led thee continually, and he satisfied thy soul in dry places, and he will make thy bones strong: and thou wed as a watered garden, and as a spring of water which its waters shall not deceive.
Isaiah 61:10-11
Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God, for he put upon me the garments of salvation, and he clothed me with a robe of justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest with a turban, and as a bride will be adorned with her dress.
Jeremiah 31:12
And they came and shouted in the height of Zion, and they flowed together to the goodness of Jehovah, for the grain and for the new wine, and for the oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd: and their soul was as a watered garden, and they shall not add to pine away any more.
Hosea 6:3
And we shall know, we shall pursue to know Jehovah: as the morning his going forth was prepared; and he shall come as the rain to us, as the latter rain, the early rain of the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 7:34
The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
2 Corinthians 1:22
Who also having sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13
In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.
Revelation 7:3
Saying, Injure not the earth, neither the sea, neither the trees, until we should seal the servants of God upon their foreheads.
Revelation 21:27
And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.