Song 5
1
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.
2
I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, [saying],
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with
dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
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 heart was moved for him.
5
I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands drops with myrrh, And my fingers with
liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
6
I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul
had failed me when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him,
but he gave me no answer.
7
The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The
keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.
8
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him,
that I am sick from love.
9
What is your beloved more than [another] beloved, O you fairest among women? What
is your beloved more than [another] beloved, That you do so adjure us?
10
My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
11
His head is [as] the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, [and] black as a raven.
12
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, [As] banks of sweet herbs: His lips are [as] lilies,
dropping liquid myrrh.
14
His hands are [as] rings of gold set with beryl: His body is [as] ivory work overlaid
[with] sapphires.
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 mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this
is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.