Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

New American Standard Bible

“His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are lilies
Dripping with liquid myrrh.

King James Version

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

Holman Bible

His cheeks are like beds of spice,
towers of perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.

International Standard Version

His cheeks are like beds of spices, like towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.

American Standard Version

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Amplified


“His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,
Banks of sweet, fragrant herbs.
His lips are lilies
Dripping sweet-scented myrrh.

Darby Translation

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Julia Smith Translation

His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh.

King James 2000

His cheeks are like a bed of spices, like sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dripping sweet smelling myrrh.

Lexham Expanded Bible

His cheeks [are] like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips [are] lilies dripping liquid myrrh.

Modern King James verseion

His cheeks are like a bed of spices, a raised bed of aromatic herbs. His lips are as lilies dropping flowing myrrh.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

His cheeks are like a garden bed, wherein the Apothecaries plant all manner of sweet things; His lips are like roses that drop sweet smelling Myrrh.

NET Bible

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

New Heart English Bible

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

The Emphasized Bible

His cheeks, like a raised bed of balsam, growing plants of perfume, - His lips, lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling:

Webster

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.

World English Bible

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Youngs Literal Translation

His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לחי 
L@chiy 
Usage: 21

are as a bed
ערגה ערוּגה 
`aruwgah 
Usage: 4

of spices
בּשׂם בּשׂם 
Besem 
Usage: 29

as sweet
מרקח 
merqach 
Usage: 1

מגדּלה מגדּל 
Migdal 
Usage: 50

שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

שׁושׁנּה שׁשׁן שׁושׁן שׁוּשׁן 
Shuwshan 
Usage: 15

נטף 
Nataph 
Usage: 18

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

References

Context Readings

Maiden's Praise Of Her Beloved

12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed. 13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. 14 His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.

Cross References

Song of Songs 1:10

Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

Song of Songs 2:1

I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.

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.

Psalm 4:6-7

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalm 27:4

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Psalm 45:2

You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

Psalm 89:15

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

Song of Songs 3:6

Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

Song of Songs 4:11

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 5:5

I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

Isaiah 50:6

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.

Luke 4:22

And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

Revelation 21:23

And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

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