Parallel Verses

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.

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,

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 rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 “His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are lilies
Dripping with liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with beryl. His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

Cross References

Song of Songs 1:10

Your cheeks are lovely with jewels and your neck with chains of gold.

Song of Songs 2:1

I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.

Song of Songs 6:2

(The Shulamite) My beloved went to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Psalm 4:6-7

Many are saying: Who will show us good? Lift up the light of your countenance (face) (presence) upon us, O Jehovah!

Psalm 27:4

I have asked one thing from Jehovah. This I will seek: to live in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look at Jehovah's beauty and search for an answer in his temple.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men. You are an eloquent speaker. God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 89:15

How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O Jehovah, they walk in the light of your countenance.

Song of Songs 3:6

Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Song of Songs 4:11

Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 5:5

I rose up to open to my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh. My fingers were sweet from sweet smelling myrrh and they grasped the lock handles.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.

Isaiah 50:6

I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.

Luke 4:22

All witnessed this and wondered at the kind words that he spoke. They said: Is this not Joseph's son?

Revelation 21:23

The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light.

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