Song of Solomon 5:13 Parallel Translations

His cheeks are like a garden of spices, a garden that produces scented herbs. His lips are lilies that drip with myrrh.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Song of Solomon 5:13 Cross References

XREF:

Song of Songs 2:1 "I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys."

Song of Songs 5:5 "I arose to open to my beloved; And my hands dripped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the bolt.

Song of Songs 6:2 "My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

5:13 Cheeks - His face or countenance, an eminent part whereof is the cheeks. Spices - Of aromatic flowers which delight both the eye with a pleasant prospect, and the smell with their fragrancy. Lillies - Beautiful and pleasant.

MHC:

5:9-16 Even those who have little acquaintance with Christ, cannot but see amiable beauty in others who bear his image. There are hopes of those who begin to inquire concerning Christ and his perfections. Christians, who are well acquainted with Christ themselves, should do all they can to make others know something of him. Divine glory makes him truly lovely in the eyes of all who are enlightened to discern spiritual things. He is white in the spotless innocence of his life, ruddy in the bleeding sufferings he went through at his death. This description of the person of the Beloved, would form, in the figurative language of those times, a portrait of beauty of person and of grace of manners; but the aptness of some of the allusions may not appear to us. He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe. May his love constrain us to live to his glory.

CONC:

Balsam Banks Bed Beds Cheeks Distilling Dripping Dropping Face Flowers Flowing Fragrance Giving Herbs Lilies Lips Liquid Myrrh Perfume Perfumes Plants Raised Smelling Sort Spice Spices Sweet Sweet-scented Sweet-smelling Towers Yielding

Balsam Banks Bed Beds Cheeks Dripping Dropping Face Flowers Flowing Fragrance Herbs Lips Myrrh Perfume Perfumes Plants Raised Smelling Spice Spices Sweet Sweet-Scented Sweet-Smelling Towers Yielding

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