11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride.(A)
Honey and milk(B) are under your tongue.
The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

12 My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden[a] and a sealed spring.(C)
13 Your branches are a paradise[b] of pomegranates
with choicest fruits;(D)
henna with nard,

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Footnotes

  1. 4:12 Some Hb mss read locked fountain
  2. 4:13 Or park, or orchard

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