Ecclesiastes 9:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 23:5 : 5 Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.
  • Amos 6:6 : 6 Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And `with' chief perfumes anoint `themselves', And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
  • Matt 6:17 : 17 `But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,
  • Luke 7:46 : 46 with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;
  • Rev 3:4-5 : 4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. 5 He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,
  • Rev 7:13-14 : 13 And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?' 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 `lo, I do come as a thief; happy `is' he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
  • Rev 19:8 : 8 and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'
  • Rev 19:14 : 14 And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure;
  • Ruth 3:3 : 3 and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to drink;
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 and Joab sendeth to Tekoah, and taketh thence a wise woman, and saith unto her, `Feign thyself a mourner, I pray thee, and put on, I pray thee, garments of mourning, and anoint not thyself with oil, and thou hast been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,
  • 2 Sam 19:24 : 24 And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king -- and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace --
  • Esth 8:15 : 15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath rejoiced and been glad;

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    15 For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

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    17 `But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,

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    18 I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

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    40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.

  • Ruth 3:3
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    3 and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to drink;

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    12 And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head.

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    9 Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

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    2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

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    9 And I do wash thee with water, And I wash away thy blood from off thee, And I anoint thee with perfume.

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    36 nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

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    7 and hast taken the anointing oil, and hast poured `it' on his head, and hast anointed him.

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    19 It is to him as apparel -- he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on.

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    17 For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!

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    2 The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy `art' thou, and good `is' to thee.

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    7 Thou `art' all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

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