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Song of Solomon

5:1

Song of Solomon 5 📜 📕 ↷

Bridegroom Accepts

1 LET my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple-trees. I am come into my garden o my sister, spouse, I have reaped my myrrh, with mine aromatical spices: I have eaten the honey-comb with mine honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat o friends, and drink, and be inebriated my dearest.📜💬📚

Bride Hears Him

2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me my sister, my love, my dove, mine immaculate: because my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.📜💬📚

3 I have spoiled my self of my robe, how shall I be clothed with it? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?📜💬📚

4 My beloved put his hand through the hole, and my belly trembled at his touch.📜💬📚

5 I arose, that I might open to my beloved: my hands have distilled myrrh, and my fingers are full of most approved myrrh.📜💬📚

6 I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned aside, and was passed. My soul melted, as he spake: I sought, and found him not: I called, and he did not answer me.📜💬📚

7 The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me, and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my cloak.📜💬📚

8 I adjure you o daughters of Jerusalem, if you shall find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.📜💬📚

Friends Inquire

9 What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, o most beautiful of women? What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, that thou hast so adjured us?📜💬📚

Bride Explains

10 My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen of thousands.📜💬📚

11 His head is as the best gold: his hairs as the branches of palm-trees, black as a raven.📜💬📚

12 His eyes as doves upon the little rivers of waters, which are washed with milk, and sit beside the most full streams.📜💬📚

13 His cheeks are as little beds of aromatical spices set of the pigmentaries. His lips are as lilies distilling principal myrrh.📜💬📚

14 His hands wrought round of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly of ivory, distinguished with sapphires.📜💬📚

15 His thighs as pillars of marble, that are upon feet of gold. His form as of Libanus, elect as the cedars.📜💬📚

16 His throat most sweet, and he whole to be desired: such an one is my beloved, and he is my friend, o daughters of Jerusalem.📜💬📚