Song of Solomon 3:6 “Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scen…”

Song of Solomon 3:6

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

Other translations

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?

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?

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

Who is shee that commeth vp out of the wildernes like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrhe and incense, and with all the spices of the marchant?

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? ...

Young's 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?

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?

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Cross references

“this”

Song of Solomon 8:5 Revelation 12:14 Deuteronomy 8:2 Isaiah 43:19 Jeremiah 2:2 Jeremiah 31:2

Song of Solomon 8:5 · BSB

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? The Bride I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

Revelation 12:14 · BSB

But 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.

Deuteronomy 8:2 · BSB

Remember 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.

Isaiah 43:19 · BSB

Behold, 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 · BSB

“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 31:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

“like”

Joel 2:29–31 Acts 2:18–21 Exodus 13:21 Exodus 13:22 Colossians 3:1 Colossians 3:2

Joel 2:29–31 · BSB

Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

Acts 2:18–21 · BSB

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Exodus 13:21 · BSB

And 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 13:22 · BSB

Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.

Colossians 3:1 · BSB

Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:2 · BSB

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

“perfumed”

Song of Solomon 1:13 Song of Solomon 1:3 Song of Solomon 4:12–14 Song of Solomon 5:5 Song of Solomon 5:13 2 Corinthians 2:14–16

Song of Solomon 1:13 · BSB

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

Song of Solomon 1:3 · BSB

The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

Song of Solomon 4:12–14 · BSB

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 5:5 · BSB

I 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 5:13 · BSB

His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

2 Corinthians 2:14–16 · BSB

But 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.

Also

Song of Solomon 4:6 Matthew 2:11 Exodus 30:34

Song of Solomon 4:6 · BSB

Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

Matthew 2:11 · BSB

On 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.

Exodus 30:34 · BSB

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

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