You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
- BSB You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
- NKJV You who dwell in the gardens, The companions listen for your voice— Let me hear it! The Shulamite
- NASB ¶“You who sit in the gardens: My companions are listening for your voice— Let me hear it!”
- NLT O my darling, lingering in the gardens, your companions are fortunate to hear your voice. Let me hear it, too!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Song 4:16Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
- Song 1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
- Song 5:9–16How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?
- Song 3:7–11Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
- 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 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.
- Song 2:13–14The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.”
- Song 7:11–12Come, my beloved, let us go out into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Ps 45:14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
- Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- John 14:13–14Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- Judg 11:38He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
- John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- Judg 14:11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
- John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
- John 16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
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