Song of Solomon 4:11-15 in English

¹¹ Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

¹⁵ Thou art a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Libanus.

¹² My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.

¹² My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

¹⁵ Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Being kissed by you is as enjoyable as eating MTY honey; your kisses are as sweet as milk mixed with honey. The aroma of your clothes is like SIM the aroma of cedar trees in Lebanon.

¹² My bride, you who are dearer to me than MET my sister, you are like MET a garden that is locked in order that other men cannot enter it; you are like MET a spring or a fountain that is covered in order that others may not drink from it.

¹³ You are like MET an orchard of pomegranate trees full of delicious fruit, and plenty of plants that produce henna and nard spices,

¹⁴ and saffron and calamus and cinnamon and many other kinds of incense, and myrrh and aloes and many other fine spices.

¹⁵ You are like MET a fountain in a garden, like MET a spring of clear water that flows down from the mountains of Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.

¹² My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Your shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹⁵ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

¹³ The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

¹⁵ You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants;

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain in the gardens, A well of living waters, Which stream from Lebanon.

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.

¹² My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

¹³ Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.

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

¹⁵ The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus.

¹¹ Nectar drips from your lips; milk and honey are under your tongue. The smell of your clothes is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked garden, a spring of water that is closed, a fountain that is sealed.

¹³ Your channel is a paradise of pomegranates, full of the best fruits, with henna and nard,

¹⁴ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all kinds of trees producing frankincense, myrrh, aloes, and the finest spices.

¹⁵ You are a garden fountain, a well of living water, a flowing stream from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lippes, my spouse, droppe as honie combes: honie and milke are vnder thy tongue, and the sauoure of thy garments is as the sauoure of Lebanon.

¹² My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.

¹³ Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,

¹⁴ Euen spikenarde, and saffran, calamus, and cynamon with all the trees of incense, myrrhe and aloes, with all the chiefe spices.

¹⁵ O fountaine of the gardens, O well of liuing waters, and the springs of Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey — honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

¹⁵ Thou art a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; Camphire, with spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Of sweet honey drop thy lips, O bride: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

¹² A locked-up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked-up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Thy sprouts are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, copher and spikenard;

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief of spices;

¹⁵ A garden-spring, a well of living waters, and flowing down from Lebanon.—

¹¹ Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; Camphor, with spikenard:

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon; With all woods of Lebanon, Myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain of a garden, And a well of water springing and gurgling from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse! drop the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments is as the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹² A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed;

¹³ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with choicest fruits, Henna and spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron, Sweet cane and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices;

¹⁵ A fountain of the gardens, A well of living water, A stream that floweth from Lebanon!

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed.

¹³ Your branches are a grove of pomegranate trees with choice fruits, and of henna and nard plants,

¹⁴ Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon with all kinds of spices, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

¹⁵ You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water, streams flowing down from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphor, with spikenard,

¹⁴ Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

¹⁵ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹² My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

¹⁵ a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹¹ Spousess, thy lips be as an honeycomb dropping; honey and milk be under thy tongue, and the odour of thy clothes is as the odour of incense.

¹² My sister spousess, a garden closed altogether; a garden closed altogether, a well asealed.

¹³ Thy sendings-out be as a paradise of apples of Punic, with the fruits of apples, cypress trees, with nard;

¹⁴ nard and saffron, an herb called fistula, and canel, with all the trees of the Lebanon, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best, either first, ointments.

¹⁵ A well of gardens, a well of welling, either quick, waters, that flow with fierceness from the Lebanon.

¹¹ Spousess, thy lips be (as) an honeycomb dropping; honey and milk be under thy tongue, and the odour of thy clothes is as the odour of incense. (Spousess, thy lips be like a dripping honeycomb; honey and milk be upon thy tongue, and the aroma of thy clothes is like the aroma of Lebanon.)

¹² My sister spousess, a garden closed together; a garden closed together, a well asealed. (My dear spousess is a garden altogether enclosed, yea, a secret garden; a garden altogether enclosed, and a sealed well.)

¹³ Thy sendings-out be (a) paradise of (the) apples of Punic, with the fruits of apples, cypress trees, with nard; (Thy out-sendings, (or thy shoots, be) like a garden of the apple trees of Punic, with its fruits of apples, and cypress trees, with spikenard;/ Thy cheeks (be) like an orchard of pomegranate trees, with its fruits, and cypress trees, with spikenard;)

¹⁴ nard and saffron, an herb called fistula, and canel, with all the trees of the Lebanon, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best, either (the) first, ointments. (spikenard and saffron, henna, and cinnamon, with all the trees of incense, myrrh, and aloes, with all the best spices, or the choicest of perfumes.)

¹⁵ A well of (the) gardens, a well of welling, either quick, waters, that flow with fierceness from the Lebanon. (The well in the garden is a fresh water well, that floweth with fierceness from Lebanon.)

¹¹ Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments Is as the fragrance of Lebanon.

¹² A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up — a fountain sealed.

¹³ Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,

¹⁴ Cypresses with nard — nard and saffron, Cane and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices.

¹⁵ A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!