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Song of Songs 4:13

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
Song of Songs 4:13 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
  • BSB Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
  • 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 from the vineyards of En Gedi.
  • Song 6:11I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
  • Eccl 2:5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
  • Song 1:12While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
  • Song 4:14spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
  • Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
  • Isa 60:21Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
  • Mark 14:3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard — very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
  • Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Ps 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • John 15:1–3“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
  • John 12:3Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
  • Song 6:2My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Song 7:12–13Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
  • Song 8:2I would lead you, bringing you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

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