My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
Song of Solomon 1:12 - Revised Standard Version While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 While the King sitteth at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition While the king sits at his table [she said], my spikenard [my absent lover] sends forth [his] fragrance [over me]. American Standard Version (1901) While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance. Common English Bible With my king close by, my perfume filled the air. Catholic Public Domain Version Groom to Bride: If you yourself do not know, O most beautiful among women, then go out and follow after the steps of the flocks, and pasture your young goats beside the tabernacles of the shepherds. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts. |
My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.