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10 Your love is so beautiful, my darling, my bride!
    Your love is better than wine.
The smell of your perfume
    is better than any kind of spice!
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:11 perfume Or “Lebanon.”

10 How delightful(A) is your love(B), my sister, my bride!
    How much more pleasing is your love than wine,(C)
and the fragrance of your perfume(D)
    more than any spice!
11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;
    milk and honey are under your tongue.(E)
The fragrance of your garments
    is like the fragrance of Lebanon.(F)
12 You are a garden(G) locked up, my sister, my bride;(H)
    you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.(I)

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