Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O that I might go to the mountain of Myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense, till the day break, and till the shadows be past away.

New American Standard Bible

Until the cool of the day
When the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

King James Version

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Holman Bible

Before the day breaks
and the shadows flee,
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.

International Standard Version

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I'll go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

American Standard Version

Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.

Amplified


“Until the day breaks
And the shadows flee away,
[In my thoughts] I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

Bible in Basic English

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Darby Translation

Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.

Julia Smith Translation

Till the day shall breathe, and the shadows fled away, I will go for myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of Lebanon.

King James 2000

Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will go up to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense.

Modern King James verseion

Until when the day blows, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

NET Bible

Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, I will go up to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

New Heart English Bible

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

The Emphasized Bible

Until the day, breathe, and the shadows, be lengthened, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, and unto the hill of frankincense.

Webster

Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, I will repair to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

World English Bible

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Youngs Literal Translation

Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, And unto the hill of frankincense.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Until the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

פּוּח 
Puwach 
Usage: 14

and the shadows
צלל 
Tselel 
Usage: 4

נוּס 
Nuwc 
Usage: 160

I will get
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

me to the mountain
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

of myrrh
מור מר 
More 
Usage: 12

and to the hill
גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 69

References

Context Readings

Groom's Praise Of His Bride

5 Thy two breasts are like two twins of young roes, which feed among the lilies. 6 O that I might go to the mountain of Myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense, till the day break, and till the shadows be past away. 7 Thou art all fair, O my love, and no spot is there in thee.


Cross References

Song of Songs 2:17

until the day break, and till the shadows be gone. Come again privily, O my beloved, like as a Roe or a young hart unto the mountains.

Song of Songs 4:14

as Cypress, Nardus, Saffron, Calamus, and all the trees of Lebanon: Myrrh, Aloes, and all the best spices.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither I will come unto thee and bless thee.

Exodus 30:8

and likewise at even when he setteth up the lamps he shall burn cense perpetually before the LORD throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:23-26

"Take principal spices: of pure myrrh five hundred sicles, of sweet cinnamon half so much, two hundred and fifty sicles:

Exodus 37:29

And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure cense after the apothecary's craft.

Deuteronomy 12:5-6

but ye shall enquire the place which the LORD your God shall have chosen out of all your tribes to put his name there and there to dwell.

Psalm 66:15

I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks and goats. Selah.

Isaiah 2:2

It shall come to pass in the last days that the mount of the house of the LORD, shall be set in the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills: and all nations shall resort thereto.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. Yea, in every place shall there sacrifice be done, and a clean meat offering offered up unto my name: for my name is great among the Heathen, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of righteousness arise, and health shall be under his wings: ye shall go forth, and multiply as the fat calves.

Luke 1:9-10

according to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense. And he went into the temple of the Lord,

Luke 1:78

Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us:

2 Peter 1:19

We have also a right sure word of prophecy, whereunto if ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, ye do well; until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

1 John 2:8

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, a thing which is true in him, and also in you: for the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Revelation 5:8

And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and twenty four elders fell down before the lamb, having harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints,

Revelation 22:16

"I, Jesus, sent mine angel, to testify unto you these things in the congregations. I am the root and the generation of David, and the bright morning star."

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