Psalm 45:8 {44:9}
Good News Translation
The perfume of myrrh and aloes is on your clothes; musicians entertain you in palaces decorated with ivory.

New Revised Standard Version
your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

Contemporary English Version
The sweet aroma of the spices myrrh, aloes, and cassia covers your royal robes. You enjoy the music of harps in palaces decorated with ivory.

New American Bible
With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are fragrant. From ivory-paneled palaces stringed instruments bring you joy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

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Songs 1:3,13 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee. . . .

Songs 3:6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer?

Songs 4:6,13,14 Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. . . .

Songs 5:1,5,13 Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved. . . .

Matthew 2:11 And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

John 19:39 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. . . .

cassia

Exodus 30:23,24 Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty, . . .

ivory

Psalm 45:15 They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king.

1 Kings 22:39 But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

Amos 3:15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

John 14:2 In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.

whereby

Psalm 16:11 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

Context
My Heart is Stirred by a Noble Theme
7Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which9The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.…
Cross References
John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Numbers 24:6
As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

1 Kings 10:18
King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Psalm 150:4
Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

Proverbs 7:17
Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

Songs 1:13
A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.

Songs 4:14
Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.

Amos 3:15
And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

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