I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my 1 spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, 2 O beloved. 1) Or balsam 2) Or of love
2I 1 was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying , Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my 2 undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. 1) Or sleep, but my heart waketh 2) Heb perfect
3I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door , And my 1 heart was moved for him. 1) Heb bowels
5I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands droppeth with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had 1 withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul 2 had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 1) Or turned away 2) Heb went forth
7The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my 1 mantle from me. 1) Or veil
8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, 1 That ye tell him, that I am sick from love. 1) Heb What will ye tell him? That etc
9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
10My beloved is white and ruddy, 1 The chiefest among ten thousand. 1) Heb Marked out by a banner
11His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are 1 bushy, and black as a raven. 1) Or curling
12His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and 1 fitly set. 1) Or sitting by full streams
13His cheeks are as a bed of 1 spices, As 2 banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. 1) Or balsam 2) Or towers of perfumes
14His hands are as 1 rings of gold set with 2 beryl: His body is as 3 ivory work 4 overlaid with sapphires. 1) Or cylinders 2) Or topaz 3) Or bright ivory 4) Or encrusted
15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16His 1 mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. 1) Or speech ; Heb palate