Song of Songs 4:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:2-4 : 2 Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better `are' thy loves than wine. 3 For fragrance `are' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee! 4 Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!
  • Song 1:12 : 12 While the king `is' in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who `is' this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed `with' myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped myrrh, Yea, my fingers flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock.
  • Song 7:6 : 6 How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
  • 2 Cor 1:21-22 : 21 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, `is' God, 22 who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:
  • Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,

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  • Song 4:5-9
    5 verses
    88%

    5Thy two breasts `are' as two fawns, Twins of a roe, that are feeding among lilies.

    6Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, I will get me unto the mountain of myrrh, And unto the hill of frankincense.

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

    8Come from Lebanon, come thou in. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Shenir and Hermon, From the habitations of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

    9Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

  • Song 4:11-16
    6 verses
    87%

    11Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk `are' under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments `Is' as the fragrance of Lebanon.

    12A garden shut up `is' my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.

    13Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,

    14Cypresses with nard -- nard and saffron, Cane and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices.

    15A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!

    16Awake, O north wind, and come, O south, Cause my garden to breathe forth, its spices let flow, Let my beloved come to his garden, And eat its pleasant fruits!

  • Song 1:2-4
    3 verses
    85%

    2Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better `are' thy loves than wine.

    3For fragrance `are' thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

    4Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

  • Song 7:4-7
    4 verses
    83%

    4Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,

    5Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

    6How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

    7This thy stature hath been like to a palm, And thy breasts to clusters.

  • Song 5:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

    2I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'

  • Song 1:12-16
    5 verses
    79%

    12While the king `is' in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance.

    13A bundle of myrrh `is' my beloved to me, Between my breasts it lodgeth.

    14A cluster of cypress `is' my beloved to me, In the vineyards of En-Gedi!

    15Lo, thou `art' fair, my friend, Lo, thou `art' fair, thine eyes `are' doves!

    16Lo, thou `art' fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch `is' green,

  • Song 5:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, O fair among women? What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

    10My beloved `is' clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!

  • 1Lo, thou `art' fair, my friend, lo, thou `art' fair, Thine eyes `are' doves behind thy veil, Thy hair as a row of the goats That have shone from mount Gilead,

  • Song 7:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9And thy palate as the good wine --' Flowing to my beloved in uprightness, Strengthening the lips of the aged!

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

  • 10My beloved hath answered and said to me, `Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

  • 16His mouth is sweetness -- and all of him desirable, This `is' my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!

  • 13His cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips `are' lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,

  • Song 1:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9To my joyous one in chariots of Pharaoh, I have compared thee, my friend,

    10Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.

  • 4Fair `art' thou, my friend, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.

  • Song 6:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?

    2My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

  • 6Who `is' this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed `with' myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?

  • 14Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!

  • 7Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

  • 3As a thread of scarlet `are' thy lips, And thy speech `is' comely, As the work of the pomegranate `is' thy temple behind thy veil,

  • 12We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

  • 19A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

  • 10`Who `is' this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?'

  • 4He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me `is' love,

  • 17I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • Song 2:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13The fig-tree hath ripened her green figs, And the sweet-smelling vines have given forth fragrance, Rise, come, my friend, my fair one, yea, come away.

    14My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice `is' sweet, and thy appearance comely.

  • 1Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,