Song of Solomon (KJV) 5
5 I 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.
2 I 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.
3 I have put off my coat; 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 bowels were moved for him.
5 I 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.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn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.
7 The 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.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my
beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of 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 charge 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 as the eyes of doves by the rivers of
waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his
lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his
belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of
fine gold: his countenance is as 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.
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