我的佳偶在女子中，好像百合花在荆棘内。

我的佳偶在女子中，好像荆棘里的百合花。

我的佳偶在女子中，好像荆棘里的百合花。

我的爱人在众少女中，就像荆棘中的一朵百合花。

我的佳偶在女子中，正像荆棘里的百合花。

我的佳偶在女子中，好像百合花在荊棘內。

我的佳偶在女子中，好像荊棘裏的百合花。

我的佳偶在女子中，好像荊棘裏的百合花。

我的愛人在眾少女中，就像荊棘中的一朵百合花。

我的佳偶在女子中，正像荊棘裡的百合花。

百合花在蒺藜中怎樣，我的愛侶在女子中也怎樣。

所羅門曰我之嘉偶、在眾女間、如荊棘中之百合花、

良人曰、愛妃在群女間、若荊棘叢中有百合花焉。

我之佳耦、在眾女中、如百合花之在荊棘間、

Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.

“ My love, among the young women you are like a lily among thorns.”

As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.

Like a lily among thistles is my darling among young women.

Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the young women.

“ Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the young women.”

THE BELOVED: Like a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the young women.

As the lily among thorns, so[ is] my love among the daughters.

Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.” (niv)

so that you may become blameless and pure,“ children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the skyas you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. (niv)

“ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. (niv)

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. (niv)

“ And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. (niv)