Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 1:12
A church father on this verse
“Let us hear what the bride says before that the bridegroom comes to earth, suffers, descends to the lower world, and rises again. "We will make for you likenesses of gold with ornaments of silver while the king sits at his table." Before the Lord rose again and the gospel shone, the bride had not gold but likenesses o…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12So long as the king was at table, My spikenard gave forth its smell.
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In context
10How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, Thy neck as chains!
11We will make thee figures of gold With studs of silver.
— Song of Solomon 1:12 —
13My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; He shall lie between my breasts.
14My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor In the vineyards of Engedi.