Song of Songs 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Song 5:1 : 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.
  • Song 6:2 : 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 7:12-13 : 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.
  • Song 8:12 : 12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
  • Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded? 10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through? 11 Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
  • Isa 64:1 : 1 O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you, As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
  • Ezek 37:9 : 9 And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life.
  • Matt 26:10 : 10 But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
  • Matt 26:12 : 12 For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
  • John 3:8 : 8 The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
  • John 5:8 : 8 Jesus said to him, Get up, take your bed and go.
  • Acts 2:1-2 : 1 And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.
  • Acts 4:31 : 31 And when their prayer was ended, the place where they were was violently moved, and they all became full of the Holy Spirit, preaching the word of God without fear.
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 15:28 : 28 So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.
  • 2 Cor 9:10-15 : 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness; 11 Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us. 12 For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God; 13 For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all; 14 While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you. 15 Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ; 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy; 12 Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
  • 1 Thess 2:12-13 : 12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory. 13 And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
  • Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement, 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
  • Eccl 1:6 : 6 The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.
  • Song 1:4 : 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.
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • 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.

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  • Song 4:8-15
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    86%

    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.

    9 You 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!

    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!

    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.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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 2:10-14
    5 verses
    81%

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

    11 For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

    12 The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;

    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.

    14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

  • Song 6:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

  • Song 7:8-13
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    79%

    8 I 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;

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

    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.

  • Song 8:13-14
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    77%

    13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

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

  • Song 1:12-14
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    76%

    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 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 3:5-6
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    5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

    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 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 2:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

    17 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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

  • Prov 7:18
    74%

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

  • Isa 5:1
    74%

    1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

  • Song 1:2
    74%

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

  • Song 6:11
    74%

    11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

  • Song 1:4
    73%

    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.

  • Song 2:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Song 5:16
    73%

    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 1:16
    73%

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

  • Song 1:7
    73%

    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?

  • Song 5:4
    72%

    4 My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.

  • Song 7:6
    72%

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