the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Song of Solomon 4:10
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How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!How much better is your love than wine,And the fragrance of your oilsThan all kinds of spices!
"How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!
O howe fayre are thy breastes, my sister, my spouse? Thy breastes are more pleasaunt then wine, and the smell of thyne oyntmentes passeth all spices.
How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!
How fair is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices!
How beautiful are your loves, My sister, My spouse! How much better are your loves than wine, and the scent of your ointments than all spices!
Your love is so beautiful, my darling, my bride! Your love is better than wine. The smell of your perfume is better than any kind of spice!
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!
How faire is thy loue, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy loue then wine! and the smell of thine oyntments then all spices!
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
O how fayre and louely are thy brestes, my sister, my spouse? Thy brestes are more pleasaunt then wyne, and the smell of thy oyntmentes passeth all spices.
"How beautiful is your love, my sister, my [promised] bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of balsam and spices.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!
How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!
Your love is sweeter than wine; the smell of your perfume is more fragrant than spices.
My sister, my bride, how sweet is your love! How much better your love than wine, more fragrant your perfumes than any spice!
My sister, my spouse, how faire is thy loue? howe much better is thy loue then wine? and the sauour of thine oyntments then all spices?
How beautiful are your breasts, O my sister, my bride! how much better are your breasts than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!
How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices!
Your love delights me, my treasure, my bride. Your love is better than wine, your perfume more fragrant than spices.
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the sweet smell of your oils than all kinds of spices!
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, and the smell of thy garments than all spices!
How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] bride! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices!
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride. Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
How beautiful are thy caresses, my sister, bride, - how much more delightful thy caresses, than wine, and the fragrance of thine oils, than all spices:
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.
How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
"How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much sweeter is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than that of all kinds of balsam oils!
Your love is so sweet, my sister, my bride. Your love is better than wine, and your perfume smells better than any spice.
Your love delights me, my sweetheart and bride. Your love is better than wine; your perfume more fragrant than any spice.
How delightful your love is, my sister, my bride. Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any balsam.
My sistir spousesse, thi tetis ben ful faire; thi tetis ben feirere than wyn, and the odour of thi clothis is aboue alle swete smellynge oynementis.
How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
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.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
love: Heb. loves, Song of Solomon 1:2, *marg.
how much: Song of Solomon 1:2, Song of Solomon 1:4
the smell: Song of Solomon 1:3, Song of Solomon 1:12, Song of Solomon 3:6, Song of Solomon 5:5, 2 Corinthians 1:21, 2 Corinthians 1:22, Galatians 5:22, Philippians 4:18, Revelation 5:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 8:21 - smelled Genesis 43:11 - spices 1 Kings 9:3 - mine eyes Psalms 45:11 - So shall Proverbs 27:9 - Ointment Ecclesiastes 7:1 - precious Song of Solomon 1:8 - O thou Song of Solomon 1:15 - thou art fair Song of Solomon 4:1 - my Song of Solomon 4:9 - my sister Song of Solomon 4:11 - the smell Song of Solomon 7:6 - General Song of Solomon 8:2 - I would cause Matthew 12:50 - and sister Mark 3:34 - Behold John 12:3 - ointment 1 Corinthians 9:5 - a sister
Cross-References
And Yahweh God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.
And Yahweh said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I don't know: am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require; At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
And Yahweh said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
And Yahweh said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plot [of ground], says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot, according to the word of Yahweh.
O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no [resting]-place.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How fair is thy love, [my] sister, my spouse!.... Of these titles, :-;
:-; and of the love of the church to Christ,
:-; here said to be "fair", lovely and delightful, grateful and acceptable; as it is to Christ, in the several acts and effects of it, and therefore the word is plural, "thy loves" r; being exceeding beautiful in his eye, and extremely well pleasing to him; therefore says, "how fair!" as admiring it, it being hard to say how fair it was; and this appears from the large manifestations of Christ's love to those that love him; and from his causing all things to work together for the good of such; and from his preparing and laying up things, unseen and unheard of, for them;
how much better is thy love than wine! which is saying the same thing of her love to him she says of his to her, Song of Solomon 1:2; her love to Christ is more pleasant, more cheering, and more acceptable to him, than the wine of legal sacrifices, or than all burnt offerings; or than any duty whatever, unless that is the principle from whence it flows,
Mark 12:33;
and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! the same with Christ's ointments, commended Song of Solomon 1:3; namely, the graces of the Spirit, which are in Christ without measure, and from him communicated to his people; and when exercised by them, are very delightful to him, and preferred by him to "all spices": even to all those used in the holy anointing oil, typical of them, Exodus 30:23.
r דודיך "amores tui", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The similes employed refer to the graces of adornment, speech, and gesture, as expressions of inward character and sentiment.
Song of Solomon 4:9
With one of thine eyes - Rather, with one look of thine.
Song of Solomon 4:11
Honeycomb - literally, Thy lips distill a dropping (of pure honey). Compare the marginal references.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. How much better is thy love — דדיך dodayich; Hebrew. μαστοισου; Septuagint. Ubera tua; Vulgate. "Thy breasts." And so all the versions, except the Chaldee.
Smell of thine ointments — Perfumes.
