Song of Songs 5

¹Song of Songs 5:1. I 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.²Song of Songs 5:2. I 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.”³Song of Songs 5:3. I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?⁴Song of Songs 5:4. My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.⁵Song of Songs 5:5. I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.⁶Song of Songs 5:6. I 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.⁷Song of Songs 5:7. I 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.⁸Song of Songs 5:8. O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

⁹Song of Songs 5:9. How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?¹⁰Song of Songs 5:10. My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.¹¹Song of Songs 5:11. His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.¹²Song of Songs 5:12. His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.¹³Song of Songs 5:13. His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.¹⁴Song of Songs 5:14. His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.¹⁵Song of Songs 5:15. His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.¹⁶Song of Songs 5:16. His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.