Song of Solomon 5 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride:

I have gathered my myrrh with my

⁎

Or, balsam

spice;

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, O friends;

Drink, yea, drink abundantly,

⁎

Or, of love

O beloved.

2I

⁎

Or, sleep, but my heart waketh

was asleep, but my heart waked:

It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,

Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my

⁎

Hebrew perfect.

undefiled;

For my head is filled with dew,

My locks with the drops of the night.

3I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on?

I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,

And my

⁎

Hebrew bowels.

heart was moved 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 bolt.

6I opened to my beloved;

But my beloved had

⁎

Or, turned away

withdrawn himself, and was gone.

My soul

⁎

Hebrew went forth.

had failed me when he spake:

I sought him, but I could not find him;

I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7The watchmen that go about the city found me,

They smote me, they wounded me;

The keepers of the walls took away my

⁎

Or, veil

mantle from me.

8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

If ye find my beloved,

⁎

Hebrew What will ye tell him? That etc.

That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

9What is thy beloved more than another beloved,

O thou fairest among women?

What is thy beloved more than another beloved,

That thou dost so adjure us?

10My beloved is white and ruddy,

⁎

Hebrew Marked out by a banner.

The chiefest among ten thousand.

11His head is as the most fine gold;

His locks are

⁎

Or, curling

bushy, and black as a raven.

12His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,

Washed with milk, and

⁎

Or, sitting by full streams

fitly set.

13His cheeks are as a bed of

⁎

Or, balsam

spices,

As

⁎

Or, towers of perfumes

banks of sweet herbs:

His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

14His hands are as

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Or, cylinders

rings of gold set with

⁎

Or, topaz

beryl:

His body is as

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Or, bright ivory

ivory work

⁎

Or, encrusted

overlaid with sapphires.

15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:

His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

16His

⁎

Or, speech. Hebrew palate.

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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