Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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 are as doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, as doves that are next to abundance.
13
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 1:10
Thy cheeks are beautiful between the earrings, thy neck between the necklaces.
Song of Songs 2:1
I am the lily of the field and the rose of the valleys.
Song of Songs 6:2
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather the lilies.
Psalm 4:6-7
There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalm 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the LORD and to enquire in his temple.
Psalm 45:2
Thou art fairer than the sons of men, grace is poured into thy lips; therefore God has blessed thee for ever.
Psalm 89:15
Happy are the people that know how to enter into joy; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Song of Songs 3:6
Who is she that rises out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense and with all the aromatic powders?
Song of Songs 4:11
Thy lips, O my spouse, drip as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Songs 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken my ear, that I might hear, as the wise.
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
Luke 4:22
And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
Revelation 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in her, for the clarity of God has illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp.