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11 My bride, your lips drip honey.
    Honey and milk are under your tongue.
Your clothes smell as sweet as perfume.[a]
12 My darling, my bride,
    you are pure like a locked garden.
You are like a locked pool,
    a closed fountain.
13 Your limbs are like a garden
    filled with pomegranates and other pleasant fruit,
with all the best spices:
    henna,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:11 perfume Or “Lebanon.”
  2. Song of Solomon 4:13 henna A plant with sweet-smelling, blue-yellow flowers that grows in clusters (groups) like grapes.

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