SongofSolomon - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 1. I am come into my garden, my sister, {cf15i 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; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
  • 2. I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, {cf15i saying}, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
  • 3. I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
  • 4. My beloved put in his hand by the hole {cf15i of the door}, And my heart was moved for him.
  • 5. I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
  • 6. I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, {cf15i and} was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
  • 7. The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.
  • 8. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
  • 9. What is thy beloved more than {cf15i another} beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than {cf15i another} beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
  • 10. My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
  • 11. His head is {cf15i as} the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, {cf15i and} black as a raven.
  • 12. His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, {cf15i and} fitly set.
  • 13. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, {cf15i As} banks of sweet herbs: His lips are {cf15i as} lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • 14. His hands are {cf15i as} rings of gold set with beryl: His body is {cf15i as} ivory work overlaid {cf15i with} sapphires.
  • 15. His legs are {cf15i as} pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
  • 16. His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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