Bible-Reading.comSong of Solomon 5
1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones!
2I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
3-- I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them? --
4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door; And my bowels yearned for him.
5I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock.
6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone: My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? -- That I am sick of love.
9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so charge us?
10My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
11His head is as the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven;
12His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;
13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid with sapphires;
15His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;
16His mouth is most sweet: Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 6
1Whither is thy beloved gone, Thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? And we will seek him with thee.
2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.
3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.
4Thou art fair, my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as troops with banners:
5Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead.
6Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.
7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.
8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:
9My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10Who is she that looketh forth as the dawn, Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, Terrible as troops with banners?
11I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, Whether the pomegranates blossomed.
12Before I was aware, My soul set me upon the chariots of my willing people.
13Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. -- What would ye look upon in the Shulamite? -- As it were the dance of two camps.