Song of Solomon, Chapter 5
Chapter 5 of Song of Solomon
¶ I have gathered my myrrh with my [a]spice;
¶ I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
¶ I have drunk my wine with my milk.
¶ Eat, O friends;
¶ Drink, yea, drink abundantly, [b]O beloved.
¶ It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
¶ Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my [d]undefiled;
¶ For my head is filled with dew,
¶ My locks with the drops of the night.
¶ I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
¶ And my [e]heart was moved for him.
¶ And my hands dropped with myrrh,
¶ And my fingers with liquid myrrh,
¶ Upon the handles of the bolt.
¶ But my beloved had [f]withdrawn himself, and was gone.
¶ My soul [g]had failed me when he spake:
¶ I sought him, but I could not find him;
¶ I called him, but he gave me no answer.
¶ They smote me, they wounded me;
¶ The keepers of the walls took away my [h]mantle from me.
¶ If ye find my beloved,
¶ [i]That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
¶ O thou fairest among women?
¶ What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
¶ That thou dost so adjure us?
¶ [j]The chiefest among ten thousand.
¶ His locks are [k]bushy, and black as a raven.
¶ Washed with milk, and [l]fitly set.
¶ As [n]banks of sweet herbs:
¶ His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
¶ His body is as [q]ivory work [r]overlaid with sapphires.
¶ His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
¶ Yea, he is altogether lovely.
¶ This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
¶ O daughters of Jerusalem.FOOTNOTES
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