Song of Songs 5:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

His cheeks are like a bed of spices, like sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet-smelling myrrh.

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  • Song 1:10 : 10 Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.
  • Song 2:1 : 1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
  • Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.
  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
  • Luke 4:22 : 22 And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son?
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its light.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this coming out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
  • Ps 4:6-7 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us. 7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.
  • Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.
  • Ps 45:2 : 2 You are more beautiful than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
  • Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 5:14-16
    3 verses
    82%

    14His hands are like gold rings set with beryl: his body is like bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

    15His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

    16His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

  • Song 4:9-15
    7 verses
    81%

    9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

    10How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!

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

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

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

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

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

  • Song 5:10-12
    3 verses
    81%

    10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand.

    11His head is like the finest gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

    12His eyes are like the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

  • Song 4:1-7
    7 verses
    80%

    1Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have dove's eyes within your locks: your hair is like a flock of goats, appearing from Mount Gilead.

    2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are evenly shorn, which came up from the washing; every one of them bears twins, and none is barren among them.

    3Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is lovely: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.

    4Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an armory, where hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

    5Your two breasts are like two young deer that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

    6Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7You are all fair, my love; there is no spot in you.

  • Song 1:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9I have compared you, my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

    10Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.

  • Song 1:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth its fragrance.

    13A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.

    14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms in the vineyards of Engedi.

    15Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

  • Song 7:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, flowing gently, causing the lips of those who are asleep to speak.

    10I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

  • Song 7:2-7
    6 verses
    76%

    2Your navel is like a round goblet that lacks no wine; your belly is like a heap of wheat encircled with lilies.

    3Your two breasts are like two young gazelles that are twins.

    4Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes like the pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

    5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your locks.

    6How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

    7This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.

  • Song 3:6
    76%

    6Who is this coming out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the powders of the merchant?

  • Song 1:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

    3Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, your name is like ointment poured out; therefore, the maidens love you.

  • Prov 7:17
    74%

    17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • Song 6:2
    74%

    2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

  • Song 6:7
    73%

    7Your temples within your locks are like a piece of a pomegranate.

  • Song 6:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

    5Turn your eyes away from me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.

  • Song 5:5
    73%

    5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

  • Song 5:1
    73%

    1I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

  • Song 8:14
    73%

    14Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.

  • Ps 45:2
    73%

    2You are more beautiful than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.

  • Ps 45:8
    73%

    8All your garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made you glad.

  • Prov 5:3
    72%

    3For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Ps 133:2
    72%

    2It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, even Aaron's beard, coming down upon the edge of his garments;

  • Song 2:10
    71%

    10My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'