Song of Songs 3:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Song 8:5 : 5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
  • Song 1:13 : 13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
  • Song 4:6 : 6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
  • Song 4:12-14 : 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.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I 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 5:13 : 13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • Exod 13:21-22 : 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night: 22 The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.
  • Exod 30:34 : 34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
  • Isa 43:19 : 19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
  • Jer 31:2 : 2 The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.
  • Matt 2:11 : 11 And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.
  • Acts 2:18-21 : 18 And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets. 19 And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke: 20 The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory: 21 And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
  • Col 3:1-2 : 1 If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.
  • Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.
  • Rev 12:14 : 14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.

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  • Song 4:6
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    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 8:4-5
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    4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

  • Song 1:12-14
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    12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

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

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

  • Song 3:2-5
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    2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

  • Prov 7:17-18
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    78%

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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

  • Song 1:2-5
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    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

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

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

    5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

  • Song 6:1-2
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    1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

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

  • Song 6:10
    77%

    10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Song 5:1-2
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    1 I 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.

    2 I 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.

  • Song 2:7-10
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    7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

    8 The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.

    9 My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.

    10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 4:13-16
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    76%

    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.

    16 Be 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.

  • Song 4:10
    76%

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

  • Song 5:13
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    13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

  • Song 8:14
    76%

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

  • Song 4:8
    75%

    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

  • Song 5:9
    75%

    9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

  • Song 7:6
    75%

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

  • Song 2:13
    75%

    13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.

  • Song 5:16
    74%

    16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 1:7-9
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    74%

    7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

    8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 7:10-13
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    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

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

    12 Let 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.

    13 The 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.

  • Ps 45:8
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    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 6:4
    73%

    4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

  • Song 5:5
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    5 I 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 3:7
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    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • Song 3:10-11
    2 verses
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    10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

    11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.