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11 Your lips drip honey,[a] my bride,
    honey and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
    is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:11 Honey: sweet words (cf. Prv 5:3) or perhaps kisses (1:2–3). Honey and milk: familiar descriptions for the fertile promised land (Ex 3:8, 17; Lv 20:24; Nm 13:27; Dt 6:3).

11 Your lips, O my spouse,
Drip as the honeycomb;
(A)Honey and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
Is (B)like the fragrance of Lebanon.

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11 Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;
    milk and honey are under your tongue.(A)
The fragrance of your garments
    is like the fragrance of Lebanon.(B)

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11 Your (A)lips drip nectar, my bride;
    (B)honey and milk are under your tongue;
    the fragrance of your garments is (C)like the fragrance of (D)Lebanon.

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