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<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/songs/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/songs/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/songs/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/songs/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/songs/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/songs/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/songs/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/song_of_songs.htm">Song of Songs</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The contents of this book justify the description of it in the title, i. 1, as the "loveliest song"--for that is the meaning of the Hebrew idiom "song of songs." It abounds in poetical gems of the purest ray. It breathes the bracing air of the hill country, and the passionate love of man for woman and woman for man. It is a revelation of the keen Hebrew delight in nature, in her vineyards and pastures, flowers and fruit trees, in her doves and deer and sheep and goats. It is a song tremulous from <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/song_of_songs.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/christ_altogether_lovely/christ_is_to_be_loved.htm">Christ is to be Loved</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Yes, He is altogether lovely." Song of Songs 5:16. At the ninth verse of this chapter, you have a question put forth by the daughters of Jerusalem, "What is your beloved more than another beloved?" The spouse answers, "He is the chief among ten thousand." She then recounts many of the things she finds so excellent in her beloved and then concludes with these words that I have read: "Yes, he is altogether lovely." The words set forth the transcendent loveliness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and naturally <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/christ_altogether_lovely/christ_is_to_be_loved.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Flavel—</span><span class="citation2">Christ Altogether Lovely</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watts/the_psalms_and_hymns_of_isaac_watts/hymn_75_the_description_of.htm">The Description of Christ the Beloved. Ss 5:9-16. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The description of Christ the beloved. SS 5:9-16. The wond'ring world inquires to know Why I should love my Jesus so: What are his charms," say they, "above The objects of a mortal love?" Yes! my Beloved, to my sight Shows a sweet mixture, red and white: All human beauties, all divine, In my Beloved meet and shine. White is his soul, from blemish free; Red with the blood he shed for me; The fairest of ten thousand fairs; A sun amongst ten thousand stars. [His head the finest gold excels; There <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watts/the_psalms_and_hymns_of_isaac_watts/hymn_75_the_description_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Isaac Watts—</span><span class="citation2">The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/christ_altogether_lovely/what_is_meant_by_altogether.htm">What is Meant by "Altogether Lovely"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Let us consider this excellent expression, and particularly reflect on what is contained in it, and you shall find this expression "altogether lovely." First, It excludes all unloveliness and disagreeableness from Jesus Christ. As a theologian long ago said, "There is nothing in him which is not loveable." The excellencies of Jesus Christ are perfectly exclusive of all their opposites; there is nothing of a contrary property or quality found in him to contaminate or devaluate his excellency. And <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/christ_altogether_lovely/what_is_meant_by_altogether.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Flavel—</span><span class="citation2">Christ Altogether Lovely</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/songs/4-12.htm">Song of Solomon 4:12 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/4-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/4-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/songs/4-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>