Song of Solomon5
1I have come to my garden, my sister 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 and become drunk with love⸥!
Maiden’s Dream: Seeking and Not Finding
2I was asleep but my heart was awake.A sound! My beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my beloved,my dove, my perfect one!For my head is full of dew,⸤my hair drenched from the moist night air⸥.” 3I have taken off my tunic, ⸤must I put it on⸥? I have bathed my feet, ⸤must I soil them⸥? 4My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,and my inmost yearned for him.5I myself arose to open to my beloved;my hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with liquid myrrhupon the handles of the bolt.6I opened myself to my beloved,but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him;I called him, but he did not answer me.7The sentinels making rounds in the city found me;they beat me, they wounded me;they took my cloak away from me—⸤those sentinels on the walls⸥!Adjuration Refrain
8I adjure you, ⸤O maidens of Jerusalem⸥, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him?Tell him that I am ⸤lovesick⸥!Maiden’s Praise of Her Beloved
9⸤How is your beloved better than another lover⸥, O most beautiful among women?⸤How is your beloved better than another lover⸥, that you adjure us thus?10My beloved is radiant and ⸤ruddy⸥, distinguished ⸤among⸥ ten thousand.11His head is gold, refined gold;his locks are wavy, black as a raven.12His eyes are like doves beside springs of water,bathed in milk, ⸤set like mounted jewels⸥. 13His cheeks are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances;his lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh.14His arms are ⸤rods⸥ of gold ⸤engraved with⸥ jewels;his belly is polished ivory covered with sapphires. 15His legs are columns of alabaster, set on bases of gold;his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as ⸤its cedars⸥. 16⸤His mouth⸥ is sweet,and he is altogether desirable.This is my beloved;this is my friend, ⸤O young women of Jerusalem⸥.Logos Bible Software