Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
His cheeks, like a raised bed of balsam, growing plants of perfume, - His lips, lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling:
New American Standard Bible
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are
King James Version
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
Holman Bible
towers of
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.
Bible in Basic English
His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid 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.
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,
Themes
Flowers » Illustrative of » The graces of Christ
Flowers » Described as » Sweet
Lily » Figurative » Of the lips of the beloved
Interlinear
Saphah
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Maiden's Praise Of Her Beloved
12 His eyes, like doves, by the channels of water, - bathing in milk, set as gems in a ring: 13 His cheeks, like a raised bed of balsam, growing plants of perfume, - His lips, lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling: 14 His hands, cylinders of gold, set with topaz, - His body, wrought work of ivory, covered with sapphires:
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 1:10
Comely are thy cheeks, with bead-rows, thy neck, with strings of gems.
Song of Songs 2:1
SHEI am The meadow-saffron of Sharon, The lily of the valleys.
Song of Songs 6:2
SHEMy beloved, is gone down to his garden, to the beds of balsam, - to pasture in the gardens, and to gather lilies,
Psalm 4:6-7
Multitudes, are saying, Who will show us prosperity? Lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance, O Yahweh.
Psalm 27:4
One thing, have I asked of Yahweh, That, will I seek to secure, - That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, To view the delightfulness of Yahweh, And to contemplate in his temple.
Psalm 45:2
Most beautiful thou art, beyond the sons of men, Graciousness hath been poured forth by thy lips, For this cause, hath God blessed thee, to times age-abiding.
Psalm 89:15
How happy are the people who know the joyful sound! O Yahweh! in the light of thy countenance, shall they firmly march along;
Song of Songs 3:6
THEYWho is this, coming up out of the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, - with perfume of myrrh, and frankincense, besides all the aromatic powder of the merchant?
Song of Songs 4:11
With sweetness, thy lips do drip, O bride, - Honey and milk, are under thy tongue, and, the fragrance of thy garments, is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Song of Songs 5:5
I myself, arose, to open to my beloved, - and, my hands, dripped with myrrh, and, my fingers, with myrrh distilling, upon the handles of the bolt.
Isaiah 50:4
My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse, - He kept wakening - morning by morning. He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken as do the instructed;
Isaiah 50:6
My back, gave I to smiters, and My cheeks, to them who pulled out the beard, - My face, hid I not from insult and spitting.
Luke 4:22
And, all, were bearing witness to him, and marvelling at the words of favour which were proceeding out of his mouth; and they were saying - Is not, this, the, son of Joseph?
Revelation 21:23
And, the city, hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they should shine therein; for, the glory of God, illumined it, and, the lamp thereof, was the Lamb.