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Song of Solomon 1:3
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The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating;your name is perfume poured out.No wonder young women adore you.
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, Therefore the alamot love you.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
"Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the young women love you.
The smell of your perfume is pleasant, and your name is pleasant like expensive perfume. That's why the young women love you.
"The aroma of your oils is fragrant and pleasing; Your name is perfume poured out; Therefore the maidens love you.
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, Therefore the virgins love you.
Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee.
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,Your name is like purified oil;Therefore the maidens love you.
The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
and you smell so sweet. All the young women adore you; the very mention of your name is like spreading perfume.
Your anointing oils have a wonderful fragrance; your name is like anointing oil poured out. This is why young women love you —
Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Your perfume smells wonderful, but your name is sweeter than the best perfume. That is why the young women love you.
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is like ointment of myrrh, therefore do the virgins love you.
There is a fragrance about you; the sound of your name recalls it. No woman could keep from loving you.
As fragrance, your perfumes are delightful; your name is poured out perfume; therefore young women love you.
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as ointment poured out; on account of this the virgins love You.
& that because of the good and pleasaunt sauoure. Thy name is a swete smellynge oyntment, therfore do the maydens loue the:
Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.
Because of the sauour of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment powred forth, therefore doe the virgins loue thee.
and that because of the good and pleasaunt sauour of thy most precious baulmes. Thy name is a sweet smelling oyntment when it is shed foorth, therfore do the maydens loue thee.
And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee.
Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is [as] ointment poured forth; therefore do the virgins love thee.
For thi tetis ben betere than wyn, and yyuen odour with beste oynementis. Thi name is oile sched out; therfor yonge damesels loueden thee.
Your oils have a goodly fragrance; Your name is oil poured forth; Therefore the virgins love you.
Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments, Your name is ointment poured forth; Therefore the virgins love you.
How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils. No wonder all the young women love you!
Your oils have a pleasing smell. Your name is like oil poured out. So the young women love you.
your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
Like the fragrance of thy precious oils, Oil poured out, is thy name, For this cause, virgins love thee.
Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments.
your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.
For fragrance [are] thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!
"Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the savour: Song of Solomon 3:6, Song of Solomon 4:10, Song of Solomon 5:5, Song of Solomon 5:13, Exodus 30:23-28, Psalms 45:7, Psalms 45:8, Psalms 133:2, Proverbs 27:9, Ecclesiastes 7:1, Isaiah 61:3, John 12:3, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Philippians 4:18
thy name: Exodus 33:12, Exodus 33:19, Exodus 34:5-7, Psalms 89:15, Psalms 89:16, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Matthew 1:21-23, Philippians 2:9, Philippians 2:10
the virgins: Song of Solomon 6:8, Psalms 45:14, Matthew 25:1, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation 14:4
Reciprocal: Exodus 30:35 - perfume Song of Solomon 1:4 - the upright love thee Song of Solomon 7:8 - the smell Isaiah 7:15 - Butter Matthew 26:7 - very Luke 7:38 - and anointed 1 Corinthians 16:22 - love Hebrews 5:14 - their James 2:7 - worthy Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon
Cross-References
"Do you know where Light comes from and where Darkness lives So you can take them by the hand and lead them home when they get lost? Why, of course you know that. You've known them all your life, grown up in the same neighborhood with them!
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God's people, Joy-seeds are planted in good heart-soil.
Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be clean." Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone. Jesus said, "Don't talk about this all over town. Just quietly present your healed body to the priest, along with the appropriate expressions of thanks to God. Your cleansed and grateful life, not your words, will bear witness to what I have done."
The Life-Light was the real thing: Every person entering Life he brings into Light. He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn't even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn't want him. But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.
"This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
Then he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!" And he came out, a cadaver, wrapped from head to toe, and with a kerchief over his face. Jesus told them, "Unwrap him and let him loose."
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because of the savour of thy good ointments,.... It was usual for lovers to anoint themselves, their hair, garments, c. to commend themselves to each other and it was common to commend each other's ointments, and the grateful smell of them q none being like them, or so agreeable as theirs: by these ointments may be meant the grace of Christ, the fulness of it, the oil of gladness with which he is anointed above his fellows, and without measure; and which so greatly recommends him to his church and people, Psalms 45:7;
thy name [is as] ointment poured forth; which emits the greater odour for its being poured forth out of the box. The very names of lovers are dear to one another, sweeter than nectar itself r; the very mention of them gives an inexpressible pleasure. This may respect not merely the fame of Christ spread abroad in the world through the ministry of the word; nor the Gospel only, which is his name, Acts 9:15; and is like a box of ointment broke open, which diffuses the savour of his knowledge everywhere; but some precious name of his, as Immanuel, God with us; Jesus, a Saviour; but more particularly his name Messiah, which signifies anointed, the anointed Prophet, Priest, and King of his church;
therefore do the virgins love thee: for the preciousness of his person, the fulness of grace in him, and the truths of his Gospel: and which love shows itself in a desire of his presence, and communion with him; in a regard to his word and worship, to his truths and ordinances; and to his people, to conversation and communion with them. By these virgins are meant either congregational churches that strictly adhere to Christ, and to his pure worship; or particular believers, for their inviolate attachment to him; for the singleness and sincerity of their love to him; for their uncorruptness in the doctrine of faith; for the truth and spirituality of their worship; for the purity of their lives and conversations; for their beauty and comeliness through Christ; for their colourful and costly attire, being clothed with his righteousness; and for their modest behaviour, having the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
q "Nam omuium unguentum odos prae tua nautea est", Plauti Curculio, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 5. r "Nomen nectari dulcius beato", Martial. l. 9. Epigr. 9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
the prologue. - The Song commences with two stanzas in praise of the king (now absent) by a chorus of virgins belonging to the royal household. Expositors, Jewish and Christian, interpret the whole as spoken by the Church of the heavenly Bridegroom.
Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me - Christian expositors have regarded this as a prayer of the Church under the old covenant for closer communion with the Godhead through the Incarnation. Thus, Gregory: “Every precept of Christ received by the Church is as one of His kisses.”
Thy love - Better as margin, i. e., thy endearments or tokens of affection are more desired than any other delights.
Song of Solomon 1:3
Because ... - Better, For fragrance are thine ointments good, making with the clause that follows two steps of a climax: “thy perfumes are good, thy name the best of all perfumes.” “Ointments” here are unguents or fragrant oils largely used for anointing at entertainments (compare Psalms 23:5; Luke 7:46; John 12:3).
Thy name ... poured forth - As unguents are the sweeter for diffusion, so the king’s name the wider it is known.
Song of Solomon 1:4
The king hath brought me - Made me a member of his household. This is true of every member of the chorus as well as of the bride.
The upright love thee - Better as in the margin: uprightly do they (i. e., “the virgins” of Song of Solomon 1:3) love thee. Compare the use of the same word in Psalms 58:1; Proverbs 23:31.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 1:3. Thy name is as ointment poured forth — Ointments and perfumes were, and still are, in great request among the Asiatics. They occur constantly in their entertainments. Thy name is as refreshing to my heart, as the best perfumes diffused through a chamber are to the senses of the guests.
Therefore do the virgins love thee. — She means herself; but uses this periphrasis through modesty.
