Song of Solomon 3:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?”
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“Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Who <FI>is<Fi> this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed <FI>with<Fi> myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Song of Solomon 3:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Exodus 30:34The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
- Song of Solomon 1:3The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
- Song of Solomon 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
- Song of Solomon 4:6Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
- Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
- Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- Song of Solomon 8:5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Isaiah 43:19Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 31:2This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
- Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- Joel 2:29Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
- Matthew 2:11On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
- Acts 2:18Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- Philippians 4:18I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
- Colossians 3:1Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
- Revelation 5:8When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- Revelation 12:6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
- Revelation 12:14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
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