Song of Solomon 5
5
1 I have come to my garden, my sister 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 and become drunk with love!#Or “Drink and become drunk, O lovers!”
Maiden’s Dream: Seeking and Not Finding
2I was asleep but#Or “and” my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved knocking!#Or “The sound of my beloved knocking!”
“Open to me, my sister, my beloved,
my dove, my perfect one!
For my head is full of dew,
my hair drenched from the moist night air.”#Literally “my locks with drops of night”
3I have taken off my tunic, must I put it on?#Literally “How will I put it on?”
I have bathed my feet, must I soil them?#Literally “How will I soil them?”
4My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,
and my inmost yearned for him.
5I myself arose to open to my beloved;
my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh
upon the handles of the bolt.
6I opened myself to my beloved,
but my beloved had turned and gone;#Or “my beloved had left; he was gone”
my heart sank#Or “my soul left” when he turned away.#Or “when he was speaking.” Translations equivocate on how to translate this verb, since there are two terms in Hebrew spelled identically: “to speak” and “to turn aside” (HALOT 1:210). The context suggests the latter
I sought him, but I did not find him;
I called him, but he did not answer me.
7The sentinels making rounds in the city found me;
they beat me, they wounded me;
they took my cloak#Or “mantle” away from me—
those sentinels on the walls!#Literally “the sentinels of the walls”
Adjuration Refrain
8I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem,#Literally “O daughters of Jerusalem”
if you find my beloved, what will you tell him?
Tell him that I am lovesick!#Literally “sick with love”
Maiden’s Praise of Her Beloved
9How is your beloved better than another lover,#Literally “What is your beloved more than another beloved …?”
O most beautiful among women?
How is your beloved better than another lover, #Literally “What is your beloved more than another beloved …?”
that you adjure us thus?
10My beloved is radiant and ruddy,#Literally “red”
distinguished among#Literally “more than” ten thousand.
11His head is gold, refined gold;
his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
12His eyes are like doves beside springs#Or “streams” of water,
bathed in milk, set like mounted jewels.#Literally “dwelling in a setting”#Or “seated at a suitable mounting”
13His cheeks are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances;
his lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.
14His arms are rods#Literally “cylinders”#Or “rings” of gold engraved with#Literally “filled with” jewels;
his belly#Or “body” is polished ivory covered with sapphires.#Or “works of ivory set with sapphire”
15His legs are columns of alabaster,#Or “marble” set on bases of gold;
his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.#Literally “the cedars”
16His mouth#Or “his palate” is sweet,
and he is altogether desirable.
This is my beloved;
this is my friend, O young women of Jerusalem.#Literally “O daughters of Jerusalem”
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