Songs, Chapter 5:

Verses from Songs, Chapter 5 of the book of Songs of the Bible.

• 1. I walked in my garden, my sister, my bride; I collected my myrrh together with my aromatic herbs. I have tasted my comb with my honey; I drank my wine along with my milk. O friends, Eat, drink, be drunk with love!
• 2. I was asleep, but my heart was vigilant. Listen! My beloved is knocking. Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my curls with the dampness of the night.
• 3. I took off my clothes, how will I put them on? I washed my feet, how will I get them dirty?
• 4. My beloved stretched out his hand through the keyhole; My insides shook for him.
• 5. I got up to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the knocker of the lock.
• 6. I opened it to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn, he had gone. My soul fainted when he spoke; I looked for him and didn't find him; I called him, and he didn't answer me.
• 7. The guards who were roaming around the city found me, they beat me, they injured me, they took my cloak, the guards on the walls!
• 8. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that if you find my beloved, you will let him know that I am sick with love.
• 9. What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you, the most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, who thus conjures us?
• 10. My beloved is white and red, the most outstanding among ten thousand.
• 11. His head is like the finest gold, his hair is curly, black as a raven.
• 12. Their eyes are like doves by the streams of water, washed in milk, set in a setting.
• 13 Their faces are like a bed of balsam, like fragrant flowers; His lips are like lilies that drop myrrh sweetly.
• 14. His hands are like gold rings set with beryl; her belly is like alabaster covered with sapphires.
• 15. His legs are like pillars of marble founded on bases of pure gold; His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as cedars.
• 16. Your speech is very sweet, yes, it is completely desirable. Such is my beloved, and such is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.