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5:1 [He] I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. [Friends] Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love.
5:2 [She] I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
5:3 I have taken off my robe - must I put it on again? I have washed my feet - must I soil them again?
5:4 My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
5:5 I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
5:6 I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure.* I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer. / *Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke
5:7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!
5:8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you - if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
5:9 [Friends] How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?
5:10 [She] My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
5:11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
5:12 His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.
5:13 His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is like polished ivory decorated with lapis lazuli.
5:15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.
5:16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
5:2 [She] I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
5:3 I have taken off my robe - must I put it on again? I have washed my feet - must I soil them again?
5:4 My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
5:5 I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
5:6 I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure.* I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer. / *Or heart had gone out to him when he spoke
5:7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!
5:8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you - if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
5:9 [Friends] How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?
5:10 [She] My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
5:11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
5:12 His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.
5:13 His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is like polished ivory decorated with lapis lazuli.
5:15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.
5:16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.