Songs 1:12
Good News Translation
My king was lying on his couch, and my perfume filled the air with fragrance.

New Revised Standard Version
While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

Contemporary English Version
My king, while you were on your couch, my aroma was a magic charm.

New American Bible
While the king was upon his couch, my spikenard gave forth its fragrance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.

the king

Songs 7:5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.

Psalm 45:1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. [2] My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.

Matthew 22:11 And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

sitteth

Songs 4:16 Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.

Matthew 22:4 Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.

Matthew 26:26-28 And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my body. . . .

Luke 24:30-32 And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread and blessed and brake and gave to them. . . .

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.

my

Songs 4:13-16 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard. . . .

John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Revelation 8:3,4 And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God. . . .

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
11While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof. 12A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.13A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.…
Cross References
Mark 14:3
And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

John 12:3
Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Songs 1:11
While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.

Songs 4:14
Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.

Songs 1:11
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