Song of Solomon 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: His lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ His cheeks are like a bed of spices or balsam, like banks of sweet herbs yielding fragrance. His lips are like bloodred anemones or lilies distilling liquid [sweet-scented] myrrh.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Common English Bible

¹³ His cheeks are like fragrant plantings, towers of spices. His lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ His head is like the finest gold. His locks are like the heights of palm trees, and as black as a raven.

Song of Solomon 5:13 Cross References

Psalm 27:4

One thing I asked of the Lord; this I seek: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 45:3

Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.

Psalm 89:15

Happy are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance;

Song of Solomon 1:10

Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Song of Solomon 1:16

Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;

Song of Solomon 2:1

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is that coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Song of Solomon 4:11

Your lips distill nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:5

I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

Song of Solomon 6:2

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given me a trained tongue, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens, wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.

Luke 4:22

All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.