Chapter 5

1 I am 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.
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, [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 [of the door],
And my heart was moved for him.
5 I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my hands droppeth 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But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone.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 [another] beloved,
O thou fairest among women?
What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved,
That thou dost so adjure us?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
The chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is [as] the most fine gold;
His locks are bushy, [and] black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,
Washed with milk, [and] fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices,
[As] banks of sweet herbs:
His lips are [as] lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are [as] rings of gold set with beryl:
His body is [as] ivory work overlaid [with] sapphires.
15 His legs are [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.