His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
Cheeks, х lªchaayaaw (H3895), from laahah, or luwach (H3871), juicy, fresh, verdant. It is in the cheeks that it is seen whether the body is full of fresh vigour or not] - the seat of Beauty, according to the Hebrew meaning (Gesenius). Yet men smote and spat on them (Isaiah 50:6).
Bed - full, like the raised surface of the garden bed; fragrant with ointments, as beds with aromatic plants (literally, balsam).
Sweet flowers - rather, 'terraces of aromatic herbs,' 'high raised parterres (literally, towers, migdalowt) of sweet plants,' paralellism to "bed:" Hebrew, harugah, from a root, haarag, to ascend, implying elevation.
Lips - (Psalms 45:2; John 7:46.)
Lilies - red lilies. Soft and gentle (1 Peter 2:22). How different lips were man's toward Him! (Psalms 22:7.)
Dropping ... myrrh - namely, His lips, just as the sweet dew-drops which hang in the calix of the lily. Dropping ... myrrh - namely, His lips, just as the sweet dew-drops which hang in the calix of the lily.