Song 5 | ASV | e4.org | I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

‏ Song of Solomon 5

1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my ^▼▼1 spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, ^▼▼2 O beloved. ^{▼▼1) Or balsam 2) Or of love}

2 I ^▼▼1 was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying , Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my ^▼▼2 undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. ^{▼▼1) Or sleep, but my heart waketh 2) Heb perfect} 3 I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door , And my ^▼▼1 heart was moved for him. ^{▼▼1) Heb bowels} 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt. 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had ^▼▼1 withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul ^▼▼2 had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. ^{▼▼1) Or turned away 2) Heb went forth} 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my ^▼▼1 mantle from me. ^{▼▼1) Or veil} 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ^▼▼1 That ye tell him, that I am sick from love. ^{▼▼1) Heb What will ye tell him? That etc}

9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, ^▼▼1 The chiefest among ten thousand. ^{▼▼1) Heb Marked out by a banner} 11 His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are ^▼▼1 bushy, and black as a raven. ^{▼▼1) Or curling} 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and ^▼▼1 fitly set. ^{▼▼1) Or sitting by full streams} 13 His cheeks are as a bed of ^▼▼1 spices, As ^▼▼2 banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. ^{▼▼1) Or balsam 2) Or towers of perfumes} 14 His hands are as ^▼▼1 rings of gold set with ^▼▼2 beryl: His body is as ^▼▼3 ivory work ^▼▼4 overlaid with sapphires. ^{▼▼1) Or cylinders 2) Or topaz 3) Or bright ivory 4) Or encrusted} 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 16 His ^▼▼1 mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. ^{▼▼1) Or speech ; Heb palate}