Proverbs 7:17

Easy-to-Read Version

My bed smells wonderful with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I’ve perfumed my bedwith myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Hebrew Names Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

English Standard Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New Century Version
I have made my bed smell sweet with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New English Translation
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Amplified Bible
"I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New American Standard Bible
"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

World English Bible
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have sprinkled my bedWith myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Berean Standard Bible
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Contemporary English Version
And I have covered it with perfume made of myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Complete Jewish Bible
I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Darby Translation
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

George Lamsa Translation
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Good News Translation
I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Lexham English Bible
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Literal Translation
I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes and Cynamom.

American Standard Version
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Bible in Basic English
I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

King James Version (1611)
I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes, and Cinamon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

English Revised Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y haue bispreynt my bed with myrre, and aloes, and canel.

Update Bible Version
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New King James Version
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New Living Translation
I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New Life Bible
I have perfumed my bed with fine perfumes and spices.

New Revised Standard
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have sprinkled my bed, with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Revised Standard Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Young's Literal Translation
I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Contextual Overview

⁶ One day I was looking out my window ⁷ at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all. ⁸ He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house. ⁹ The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark. ¹⁰ Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him. ¹¹ She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home. ¹² She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap. ¹³ She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said, ¹⁴ "I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give, ¹⁵ and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

perfumed: Song of Solomon 3:6, Isaiah 57:7-9

with: Psalms 45:8, Song of Solomon 4:13, Song of Solomon 4:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:23 - thee principal Esther 2:12 - six months Proverbs 27:9 - Ointment Isaiah 3:24 - instead Isaiah 57:9 - perfumes Ezekiel 23:41 - stately Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have perfumed my bed,.... As she had made it entertaining to the senses of seeing and feeling, it being showy and gaudy, soft and easy; so to the sense of smelling; and all to provoke lust, and draw into her embraces; by censing it with incense, as Donesh in Jarchi; or by sprinkling s a liquor, made of the following spices, on the head, posts, and sides of the bed, to remove all ill scents, and make it more acceptable; so the Targum, Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, and all the Oriental versions, render it, "I sprinkled my bed": or, it may be, by suffumigation, which women are said to use with their garments and bed clothes t. Even this the harlot did,

with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon; all odorous, and of a sweet smell: Horace u speaks of the anointed beds of such persons; and of the above spices ointments were made, with which the harlot's bed might be perfumed. Cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, are reckoned among the wares of Babylon, or the church of Rome, Revelation 18:13.

s Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 13. c. 1. t Clemens Alex. Paedagog. l. 2. c. 8. p. 177. u "Uctis cubilibus pellicum", Epod. Ode. 5. v. 69, 70.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The love of perfumes is here, as in Isaiah 3:24, a sign of luxurious vice.

Cinnamon - The Hebrew word is identical with the English. The spice imported by the Phoenician traders from the further East, probably from Ceylon, has kept its name through all changes of language.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:17. I have perfumed any bed with Myrrh — מר mor, "aloes," אהלים ahalim, and "cinnamon," קנמון kinnamon. We have taken our names from the original words; but probably the ahalim may not mean aloes, which is no perfume; but sandal wood, which is very much used in the East. She had used every means to excite the passions she wished to bring into action.