Chapter 5
Song of Solomon
Verse 1I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,I gathered my myrrh with my spice,I ate my honeycomb with my honey,I drank my wine with my milk.OthersEat, friends, drink,and be drunk with love!SheVerse 2I slept, but my heart was awake.A sound! My beloved is knocking.“Open to me, my sister, my love,my dove, my perfect one,for my head is wet with dew,my locks with the drops of the night.”Verse 3I had put off my garment;how could I put it on?I had bathed my feet;how could I soil them?Verse 4My beloved put his hand to the latch,and my heart was thrilled within me.Verse 5I arose to open to my beloved,and my hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with liquid myrrh,on the handles of the bolt.Verse 6I opened to my beloved,but my beloved had turned and gone.My soul failed me when he spoke.I sought him, but found him not;I called him, but he gave no answer.Verse 7The watchmen found meas they went about in the city;they beat me, they bruised me,they took away my veil,those watchmen of the walls.Verse 8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,if you find my beloved,that you tell himI am sick with love.OthersVerse 9What is your beloved more than another beloved,O most beautiful among women?What is your beloved more than another beloved,that you thus adjure us?SheVerse 10My beloved is radiant and ruddy,distinguished among ten thousand.Verse 11His head is the finest gold;his locks are wavy,black as a raven.Verse 12His eyes are like dovesbeside streams of water,bathed in milk,sitting beside a full pool.Verse 13His cheeks are like beds of spices,mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.His lips are lilies,dripping liquid myrrh.Verse 14His arms are rods of gold,set with jewels.His body is polished ivory,bedecked with sapphires.Verse 15His legs are alabaster columns,set on bases of gold.His appearance is like Lebanon,choice as the cedars.Verse 16His mouth is most sweet,and he is altogether desirable.This is my beloved and this is my friend,O daughters of Jerusalem.
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