Songs 5:13
Good News Translation
His cheeks are as lovely as a garden that is full of herbs and spices. His lips are like lilies, wet with liquid myrrh.

New Revised Standard Version
His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.

Contemporary English Version
His face is a garden of sweet-smelling spices; his lips are lilies dripping with perfume.

New American Bible
His cheeks are like beds of spices yielding aromatic scents; his lips are lilies that drip flowing myrrh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

cheeks

Songs 1:10 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

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Psalm 4:6,7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart. . . .

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

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

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

sweet flowers

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?

his lips

Songs 4:11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.

Psalm 45:2 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Luke 4:22 And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

dropping

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

Context
The Bride and Her Beloved
12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams. 13His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.14His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.…
Cross References
Songs 1:10
We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Songs 2:1
I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.

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

Songs 6:2
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Songs 5:12
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