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Song of Songs 5 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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I have come to my garden ​— ​my sister, my bride.

I gather[fn] my myrrh with my spices.

I eat my honeycomb with my honey.

I drink my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends!

Drink, be intoxicated with caresses![fn]

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I was sleeping, but my heart was awake.

A sound! My love was knocking!

Open to me, my sister, my darling,

my dove, my perfect one.

For my head is drenched with dew,

my hair with droplets of the night.

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I have taken off my clothing.

How can I put it back on?

I have washed my feet.

How can I get them dirty?

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My love thrust his hand through the opening,

and my feelings were stirred for him.

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I rose to open for my love.

My hands dripped with myrrh,

my fingers with flowing myrrh

on the handles of the bolt.

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I opened to my love,

but my love had turned and gone away.

My heart sank[fn] because he had left.[fn]

I sought him, but did not find him.

I called him, but he did not answer.

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The guards who go about the city found me.

They beat and wounded me;

they took my cloak[fn] from me —

the guardians of the walls.

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Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,

if you find my love,

tell him that I am lovesick.

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What makes the one you love better than another,

most beautiful of women?

What makes him better than another,

that you would give us this charge?

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My love is fit and strong,[fn]

notable among ten thousand.

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His head is purest gold.

His hair is wavy[fn]

and black as a raven.

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His eyes are like doves

beside flowing streams,

washed in milk

and set like jewels.[fn]

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His cheeks are like beds of spice,

mounds of[fn] perfume.

His lips are lilies,

dripping with flowing myrrh.

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His arms[fn] are rods of gold

set[fn] with beryl.

His body[fn] is an ivory panel

covered with lapis lazuli.

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His legs are alabaster pillars

set on pedestals of pure gold.

His presence is like Lebanon,

as majestic as the cedars.

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His mouth is sweetness.

He is absolutely desirable.

This is my love, and this is my friend,

young women of Jerusalem.

See the CSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
CSB Footnotes
Lit pluck
Or Drink your fill, lovers
Lit My soul went out
Or spoken
Or veil, or shawl
Or is radiant and ruddy
Or is like palm leaves ; Hb obscure
Lit milk sitting in fullness
LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
Lit hands
Lit filled ; Sg 5:2,12
Lit abdomen
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Song of Songs Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras