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Song of Solomon 5

1

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.

2

I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

3

I have taken off my robe-- must I put it on again? I have washed my feet-- must I soil them again?

4

My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.

5

I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

6

I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.

7

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!

8

O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you-- if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.

9

How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?

10

My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.

11

His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

12

His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

13

His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.

14

His arms are rods of gold set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires.

15

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

16

His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 6

1

Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you?

2

My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

3

I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies.

4

You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, majestic as troops with banners.

5

Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.

6

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is alone.

7

Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.

8

Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number;

9

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.

10

Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?

11

I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.

12

Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people.

13

Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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