Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
like columns of smoke,
scented with myrrh and frankincense
from every fragrant powder of the merchant?
New American Standard Bible
Like
Perfumed with
With all scented powders of the merchant?
King James Version
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
International Standard Version
What is this coming up from the desert like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
A Conservative Version
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
American Standard Version
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?
Amplified
(The Shulammite Bride)
“What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like [stately] pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”
Bible in Basic English
Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
Darby Translation
Who is this, she that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? ...
Julia Smith Translation
Who is this coming up from the desert as columns of smoke of burning incense, of myrrh and frankincense from all the powder of the trader.
King James 2000
Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
Lexham Expanded Bible
What [is] this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
Modern King James verseion
Who is this coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, from all the merchant's powders?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is this, that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, as it were a smell of Myrrh, frankincense and all manner spices of the Apothecary?
NET Bible
The Speaker: Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?
New Heart English Bible
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
The Emphasized Bible
THEYWho is this, coming up out of the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, - with perfume of myrrh, and frankincense, besides all the aromatic powder of the merchant?
Webster
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
World English Bible
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?
Interlinear
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Song of Solomon 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Royal Wedding Procession
5
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.
like columns of smoke,
scented with myrrh and frankincense
from every fragrant powder of the merchant?
surrounded by 60 warriors
from the mighty of Israel.
Phrases
Cross References
Song of Songs 8:5
leaning on the one she loves?
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
Song of Songs 1:13
spending the night between my breasts.
Song of Songs 4:6
and the shadows flee,
I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.
Exodus 13:21-22
The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud
Exodus 30:34
The Lord said to Moses: “Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum; the spices and pure frankincense are to be in equal measures.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.
Song of Songs 1:3
your name is perfume poured out.
No wonder young women
Song of Songs 4:12-14
a locked garden
Song of Songs 5:5
My hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
Song of Songs 5:13
towers of
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.
Isaiah 43:19
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 31:2
This is what the Lord says:
the people who survived the sword.
When Israel went to find rest,
Joel 2:29-31
on the male and female slaves in those days.
Matthew 2:11
Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped Him.
Acts 2:18-21
on My male and female slaves in those days,
and they will prophesy.
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
But thanks be to God,
Philippians 4:18
But I have received everything in full,
Colossians 3:1-2
So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.
Revelation 5:8
When He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 12:6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God,
Revelation 12:14
The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was fed for a time, times, and half a time.