Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring 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.
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.
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 drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments Is as the fragrance of Lebanon. 12 A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed. 13 Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15-18
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
Genesis 29:3
(When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)
Song of Songs 6:2
My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Songs 6:11
Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --
Isaiah 58:11
And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.
Isaiah 61:10-11
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Jeremiah 31:12
And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.
Hosea 6:3
And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
1 Corinthians 6:13
the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
1 Corinthians 7:34
The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
2 Corinthians 1:22
who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
Ephesians 4:30
and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
Revelation 7:3
'Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'
Revelation 21:27
and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.