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13 Your limbs are like a garden
    filled with pomegranates and other pleasant fruit,
with all the best spices:
    henna,[a]

14 nard, saffron,[b] calamus,[c] and cinnamon.[d]

Your limbs are like a garden
    filled with trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloe.
15 You are like a garden fountain—
    a well of fresh water—
    flowing down from the mountains of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:13 henna A plant with sweet-smelling, blue-yellow flowers that grows in clusters (groups) like grapes.
  2. Song of Solomon 4:14 saffron A kind of yellow flower used in making perfume.
  3. Song of Solomon 4:14 calamus A kind of reed plant used in making perfume.
  4. Song of Solomon 4:14 cinnamon A kind of plant used as a spice and in making perfume.

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