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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and thy throat like the best wine. This shall be pure and clear for my love, his lips and teeth shall have their pleasure.
New American Standard Bible
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Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.
King James Version
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Holman Bible
gliding past my lips and teeth!
International Standard Version
May your mouth be like good wine. May it go down smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones.
A Conservative Version
and thy mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips and teeth.
American Standard Version
And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.
Amplified
‘And your kisses like the best wine!’”
Bible in Basic English
And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
Darby Translation
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.
Julia Smith Translation
And thy palate as good wine going to my beloved for uprightness, causing the lips of the sleeping to flow softly.
King James 2000
And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your palate [is] like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.
Modern King James verseion
and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my Beloved, that goes down smoothly for my Beloved, flowing softly over the lips of sleeping ones.
NET Bible
May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together.
New Heart English Bible
Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
The Emphasized Bible
And, thy mouth, like good wine - SHEFlowing to my beloved smoothly, gliding over the lips of the sleeping.
Webster
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
World English Bible
Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
Youngs Literal Translation
And thy palate as the good wine -- 'Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 7:9
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Context Readings
Solomon Longs For The Young Woman's Affection
8 I said, I will climb up the date tree, and take hold of his branches. Thy breasts also shall be as the vine grapes, the smell of thy nostrils like the smell of apples, 9 and thy throat like the best wine. This shall be pure and clear for my love, his lips and teeth shall have their pleasure. 10 There will I turn me unto my love, and he shall turn him unto me.
Cross References
Song of Songs 5:16
His throat is sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. Such one is my love, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, such one is my love.
Proverbs 16:24
Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.
Song of Songs 2:14
Up, haste my love, my dove, in the holes of the rock and secret places of the walls. Show me thy face and let me hear thy voice: for thy voice is sweet and thy fashion beautiful.
Song of Songs 5:2
As I was asleep, and my heart waking, I heard the voice of my beloved, when he knocked. Open to me, said he, O my sister, my love, my darling, my dove: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of my hair are full of the night drops.
Isaiah 62:8-9
The LORD hath sworn by his righthand and by his strong arm, that he will not give thy corn any more to be eaten of thine enemies: and that aliens shall not drink thy new wine wherefore thou hast laboured.
Zechariah 9:15-17
The LORD of Hosts shall defend them, they shall consume and devour, and subdue them with sling stones. They shall drink and rage, as it were through wine. They shall be filled like the basins, and as the horns of the altar.
Acts 2:11-13
Jews and converts, Greeks and Arabians: We have heard them speak with our own tongues the great works of God."
Acts 2:46-47
And they continued daily with one accord in the temple, and brake bread in every house, and did eat their meat together with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God,
Acts 4:31-32
And as soon as they had prayed, the place moved where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and they spake the word of God boldly.
Acts 16:30-34
and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Romans 13:11
This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are fallen asleep, that ye sorrow not as others do which have no hope.
Hebrews 13:15
For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.
Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"