Songs 1:3
Good News Translation
There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.

New Revised Standard Version
your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you.

Contemporary English Version
and you smell so sweet. All the young women adore you; the very mention of your name is like spreading perfume. *

New American Bible
better than the fragrance of your perfumes. Your name is a flowing perfume— therefore young women love you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the saviour

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 4:10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

Songs 5:5,13 I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh. . . .

Exodus 30:23-28 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, . . .

Psalm 45:7,8 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. . . .

Psalm 133:2 Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:

Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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. . . .

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

thy name

Exodus 33:12,19 And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight. . . .

Exodus 34:5-7 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 89:15,16 Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: . . .

Isaiah 9:6,7 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. . . .

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Matthew 1:21-23 And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. . . .

Philippians 2:9,10 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: . . .

the virgins

Songs 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

Psalm 45:14 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Revelation 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
2Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. 3Draw 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.4I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.…
Cross References
John 12:3
Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

2 Corinthians 2:14
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.

2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.

Psalm 45:14
Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Songs 4:10
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

Songs 6:8
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

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