51I have 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. Friends Eat, friends!Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved+
The Friends
The Bride
2I was asleep, but my heart was awake.It is the voice of my beloved who knocks:“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled;for my head is filled with dew,and my hair with the dampness of the night.”+3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on?I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?+4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening.My heart pounded for him.+5I rose up to open for my beloved.My hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with liquid myrrh,on the handles of the lock.+6I opened to my beloved;but my beloved left, and had gone away.My heart went out when he spoke.I looked for him, but I didn’t find him.I called him, but he didn’t answer.+7The watchmen who go about the city found me.They beat me.They bruised me.The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.+8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,If you find my beloved,that you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends+
The Friends
9How is your beloved better than another beloved,you fairest amongst women?How is your beloved better than another beloved,that you do so adjure us? Beloved+
The Bride
10My beloved is white and ruddy.The best amongst ten thousand.+11His head is like the purest gold.His hair is bushy, black as a raven.+12His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks,washed with milk, mounted like jewels.+13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.+14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.+15His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.+16His mouth is sweetness;yes, he is altogether lovely.This is my beloved, and this is my friend,daughters of Jerusalem.+
World English Bible (British)
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