Song of Songs 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Torment of Separation

Sng 5:1I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

Sng 5:2

Sng 5:2I slept, but my heart was awake. Hark! my beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

Sng 5:3

Sng 5:3I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them?

Sng 5:4

Sng 5:4My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.

Sng 5:5

Sng 5:5I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

Sng 5:6

Sng 5:6I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

Sng 5:7

Sng 5:7The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls.

Sng 5:8

Sng 5:8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

Sng 5:9

Sng 5:9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?

Admiration by the Bride

Sng 5:10

Sng 5:10My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

Sng 5:11

Sng 5:11His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

Sng 5:12

Sng 5:12His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set.

Sng 5:13

Sng 5:13His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.

Sng 5:14

Sng 5:14His arms are rounded gold, set with jewels. His body is ivory work, encrusted with sapphires.

Sng 5:15

Sng 5:15His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

Sng 5:16

Sng 5:16His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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Song of Songs 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Torment of Separation

Admiration by the Bride

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