“His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Song of Solomon 5 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.