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Song of Songs 4:13

Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Song of Songs 4:13 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
  • 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 unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
  • Song 6:11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
  • Eccl 2:5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
  • Song 1:12While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
  • Song 4:14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
  • Isa 61:11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
  • Isa 60:21Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
  • Mark 14:3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
  • Phil 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
  • Ps 92:14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
  • John 15:1–3I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • John 12:3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
  • Song 6:2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Song 7:12–13Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
  • Song 8:2I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

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