KJV King James Version
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
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Song of Solomon 4:15
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
WEB World English Bible
a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou art a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!
Surrounding context — Song of Solomon 4
12 A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13 Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
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Cross-references
John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.Song of Solomon 4:12A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.Jeremiah 18:13-14Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:Revelation 22:1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.Psalm 46:4[There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.Psalm 36:8-9They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
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