Bible, King James Version
Song_of_Solomon
Cant.5
[1] I 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, O beloved.
[2] I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my
beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my
dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks
with the drops of the night.
[3] I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have
washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
[4] My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
and my bowels were moved for him.
[5] I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped
with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the
handles of the lock.
[6] I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn
himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought
him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no
answer.
[7] The 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.
[8] I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my
beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
[9] What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou
fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another
beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
[10] My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten
thousand.
[11] His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are
bushy, and black as a raven.
[12] His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of
waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
[13] His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers:
his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
[14] His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his
belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
[15] His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets
of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the
cedars.
[16] His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether
lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of
Jerusalem.
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