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.
02 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.
03 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
04 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the
door, and my bowels were moved for him.
05 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.
06 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withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed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.
07 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.
08 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye
find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick
of love.
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09 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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