The Song of Songs of Solomon

Chapter-5

Song of Songs 5:1 Bride: May my beloved enter into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees.

 

Song of Songs 5:2 Groom to Bride: I have arrived in my garden, O my sister, my spouse. I have harvested my myrrh, with my aromatic oils. I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey. I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, O most beloved.

 

Song of Songs 5:3 Bride: I sleep, yet my heart watches. The voice of my beloved knocking:

 

Song of Songs 5:4 Groom to Bride: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my immaculate one. For my head is full of dew, and the locks of my hair are full of the drops of the night.

 

Song of Songs 5:5 Bride: I have taken off my tunic; how shall I be clothed in it? I have washed my feet; how shall I spoil them?

 

Song of Songs 5:6 My beloved put his hand through the window, and my inner self was moved by his touch.

 

Song of Songs 5:7 I rose up in order to open to my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the finest myrrh.

 

Song of Songs 5:8 I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved. But he had turned aside and had gone away. My soul melted when he spoke. I sought him, and did not find him. I called, and he did not answer me.

 

Song of Songs 5:9 The keepers who circulate through the city found me. They struck me, and wounded me. The keepers of the walls took my veil away from me.

 

Song of Songs 5:10 I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, announce to him that I languish through love.

 

Song of Songs 5:11 Chorus to Bride: What kind of beloved is your beloved, O most beautiful among women? What kind of beloved is your beloved, so that you would bind us by oath?

 

Song of Songs 5:12 Bride: My beloved is white and ruddy, elect among thousands.

 

Song of Songs 5:13 His head is like the finest gold. His locks are like the heights of palm trees, and as black as a raven.

 

Song of Songs 5:14 His eyes are like doves, which have been washed with milk over rivulets of waters, and which reside near plentiful streams.

 

Song of Songs 5:15 His cheeks are like a courtyard of aromatic plants, sown by perfumers. His lips are like lilies, dripping with the best myrrh.

 

Song of Songs 5:16 His hands are smoothed gold, full of hyacinths. His abdomen is ivory, accented with sapphires.

 

Song of Songs 5:17 His legs are columns of marble, which have been established over bases of gold. His appearance is like that of Lebanon, elect like the cedars.

 

Song of Songs 5:18 His throat is most sweet, and he is entirely desirable. Such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

 

Song of Songs 5:19 Chorus to Bride: Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? To where has your beloved turned aside, so that we may seek him with you?