3Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens love you!


In Context

1 Solomon's Song of Songs.

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth- for your love is more delightful than wine.

3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens love you!

4 Take me away with you-let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you ; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore you!

5 Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 1:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:3Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:3Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:3Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:3Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the virgins love thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:3For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out — thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:3Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.