Song of Songs 5
5
1M
I have come to my garden — my sister, my bride.
I gather # Lit pluck my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
N
Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with love! # Or Drink your fill, lovers # Pr 5:19
W
2I sleep, but my heart is awake.
A sound! My love is knocking! # Sg 2:8
M
Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
W
3I have taken off my clothing. # Lk 11:7
How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I get them dirty?
4My love thrust his hand through the opening,
and my feelings were stirred for him.
5I rose to open for my love.
My hands dripped with myrrh, # Sg 5:13
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
6I opened to my love,
but my love had turned and gone away.
I was crushed # Lit My soul went out that he had left. # Or spoken
I sought him, but did not find him. # Sg 3:1-2
I called him, but he did not answer.
7The guards who go about the city found me. # Sg 3:3
They beat and wounded me;
they took my cloak # Or veil, or shawl from me —
the guardians of the walls. # Sg 8:9-10
8Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: # Sg 2:7; 3:5; 8:4
if you find my love,
tell him that I am lovesick. # Sg 2:5
Y
9What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women? # Sg 1:8; 6:1
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
W
10My love is fit and strong, # Or is radiant and ruddy # 1Sm 16:12
notable among ten thousand. # Ps 45:2
11His head is purest gold.
His hair is wavy # Or is like palm leaves ; Hb obscure # Sg 5:2
and black as a raven.
12His eyes are like doves # Sg 1:15; 4:1
beside streams of water,
washed in milk
and set like jewels. # Lit milk sitting in fullness
13His cheeks # Sg 1:10 are like beds of spice,
towers of # LXX, Vg read spice, yielding perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh. # Sg 5:5
14His arms # Lit hands are rods of gold
set # Lit filled ; Sg 5:2,12 with topaz. # Probably yellow topaz # Ex 28:20; 39:13; Ezk 1:16
His body # Lit abdomen is an ivory panel
covered with sapphires. # Ex 24:10
15His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon, # Sg 7:4-5
as majestic as the cedars. # 1Kg 4:33
16His mouth is sweetness.
He is absolutely desirable. # Sg 4:7
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.
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