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10 Your cheeks are beautiful with pendants
    and your neck with its jeweled necklaces.
11 We will make ornaments of gold for you
    that are studded with silver.

Bride:

12 While the king reclines on his couch,
    my nard[a] yields its fragrance.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 1:12 Nard: a precious perfume (see Song 4:13-14; Mk 14:3; Jn 12:3), which symbolizes the bride (see Song 4:14).