51I have come to 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, and drink;drink freely, O beloved.+
The Friends
The Bride
2I sleep, but my heart is awake.A sound! My beloved is knocking:“Open to me, my sister, my darling,my dove, my flawless one.My head is drenched with dew,my hair with the dampness of the night.”+3I have taken off my robe —must I put it back on?I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?+4My beloved put his hand to the latch;my heart pounded for him.+5I rose up to open for my beloved.My hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with flowing myrrhon the handles of the bolt.+6I opened for my beloved,but he had turned and gone.My heart sank at his departure.I sought him but did not find him.I called, but he did not answer.+7I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city.They beat me and bruised me;they took away my cloak,those guardians of the walls.+8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you,if you find my beloved,tell him I am sick with love.+
The Friends
9How is your beloved better than others,O most beautiful among women?How is your beloved better than another,that you charge us so?+
The Bride
10My beloved is dazzling and ruddy,outstanding among ten thousand.+11His head is purest gold;his hair is wavy and black as a raven.+12His eyes are like dovesbeside the streams of water,bathed in milkand mounted like jewels.+13His cheeks are like beds of spice,towers of perfume.His lips are like lilies,dripping with flowing myrrh.+14His arms are rods of goldset with beryl.His body is polished ivorybedecked with sapphires.+15His legs are pillars of marbleset on bases of pure gold.His appearance is like Lebanon,as majestic as the cedars.+16His mouth is most sweet;he is altogether lovely.This is my beloved, and this is my friend,O daughters of Jerusalem.+Footnotes (1)
a5:16 Hebrew palate
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