1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: 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.studyinterlinear
2I sleep, but my heart waketh: 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, and my locks with the drops of the night.studyinterlinear
3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?studyinterlinear
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.studyinterlinear
5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.studyinterlinear
6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.studyinterlinear
7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.studyinterlinear
8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.studyinterlinear
9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?studyinterlinear
10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.studyinterlinear
11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.studyinterlinear
12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.studyinterlinear
13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.studyinterlinear
14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.studyinterlinear
15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.studyinterlinear
16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.studyinterlinear