Song of Solomon 4:12 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

A garden shut up [is] my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.

English ASV

A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

English Amplified

A garden enclosed and barred is my sister, my [promised] bride--a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

A garden enclosed and barred is my sister, my [promised] bride–a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden — a locked garden and a sealed spring.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

A garden enclosed is my sister, [my] spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

English EASY 2024

My sister and my bride, you are like a garden for me that is locked to other men. You are like a spring or a fountain that other people may not drink water from.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

My darling, my bride, {you are pure} like a locked garden. You are like a locked pool, a closed fountain.

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden, a walled garden, a private spring;

English God's Word - GW 1995

My bride, my sister is a garden that is locked, a garden that is locked, a spring that is sealed.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

My sister, my bride, [you are] a locked garden-- a locked garden and a sealed spring.

English KJV 1611

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

English LSB

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

G You are an enclosed garden, my sister, my bride, an enclosed garden, a fountain sealed.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My bride, you are like a garden that is locked up. My sister, you are like a spring of water that has a fence around it. You are like a fountain that is sealed up.

English NIV

You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.

English NKJ 1982

A garden enclosed Is my sister, my spouse, A spring shut up, A fountain sealed.

English NLT

"You are like a private garden, my treasure, my bride! You are like a spring that no one else can drink from, a fountain of my own.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

My darling bride, my private paradise, fastened to my heart. A secret spring that no one else can have are you— my bubbling fountain hidden from public view. What a perfect partner to me now that I have you.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

“My darling bride is like a private garden, a spring that no one else can have, a fountain of my own.

English Tyndale 1537

Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, a sealed well.

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