Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked 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.
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 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, My spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon. 12 A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked up, a fountain sealed. 13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; with henna and spikenard,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
Genesis 29:3
And all the flocks were gathered there. And they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.
Song of Songs 6:2
My Beloved has gone 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 see the greenery of the valley, to see whether the vine flowered and the pomegranates budded.
Isaiah 58:11
And Jehovah shall always guide you and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones fat; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 61:10-11
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Jeremiah 31:12
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not pine away any more at all.
Hosea 6:3
Then we shall know, if we follow on to know Jehovah. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,
1 Corinthians 7:34
The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
2 Corinthians 1:22
And He has sealed us and having given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13
in whom also you, hearing the Word of Truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption.
Revelation 7:3
saying, Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.