Proverbs 7:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:8 : 8 Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
  • Song 4:13-14 : 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.
  • Isa 57:7-9 : 7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering. 8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it 9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
  • Exod 30:23 : 23 Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:15-16
    2 verses
    88%

    15So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

    16My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

  • Song 4:9-16
    8 verses
    81%

    9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

    10How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

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

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

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

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

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

    16Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

  • Prov 7:18
    81%

    18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • Song 1:12-14
    3 verses
    81%

    12While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

    13As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • Song 3:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

    7See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • Ezek 23:41
    77%

    41And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • Song 7:6-13
    8 verses
    76%

    6How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

    7You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.

    8I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

    9And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.

    10I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

    11Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.

    12Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

    13The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

  • Song 4:6
    76%

    6Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Ps 45:8
    76%

    8Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

  • Song 5:13
    74%

    13His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

  • Song 5:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

    2I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

    3I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

  • Job 7:13
    73%

    13When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

  • Song 5:5
    73%

    5I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.

  • Song 1:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

    17Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

  • Song 6:2
    72%

    2My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.

  • Song 1:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

    3Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

  • Exod 30:23
    71%

    23Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

  • Isa 57:8
    71%

    8And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

  • Song 2:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

    5Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

    6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

  • Ezek 16:18
    71%

    18And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • Song 8:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

    3His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

  • Song 8:14
    70%

    14Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.

  • Song 3:1
    70%

    1By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

  • Exod 25:6
    70%

    6Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

  • Song 3:10
    70%

    10He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.