Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
Parallel translations
- WEB Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
- KJV Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
- NKJV Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates With pleasant fruits, Fragrant henna with spikenard,
- NASB “Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants,
- NLT Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices— henna with nard,
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Quick answer
Her garden teems with choice fruits and fragrant plants. It praises her abundant loveliness and rich attractiveness.
Overview
Pomegranates, henna, and nard fill the garden of his bride, an image of fruitfulness and delightful fragrance. The beauty within the enclosed garden is rich and pleasing. The fruitful garden has been seen as a picture of the graces the Lord cultivates in His people, a garden He delights to enter (John 15:8; Gal. 5:22-23).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Song 1:14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
- Song 6:11I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
- Eccl 2:5I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
- Song 1:12While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
- Song 4:14with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
- Isa 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- Isa 60:21Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Mark 14:3While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
- Phil 1:11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Ps 92:14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- John 15:1–3“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- John 12:3Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- Song 6:2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
- Song 7:12–13Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.
- Song 8:2I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
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