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# Song of Solomon 5

[1](#verse-1) I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. 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, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

[2](#verse-2) I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

[3](#verse-3) I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

[4](#verse-4) My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

[5](#verse-5) I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

[6](#verse-6) I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

[7](#verse-7) The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

[8](#verse-8) I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

[9](#verse-9) How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

[10](#verse-10) My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

[11](#verse-11) His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

[12](#verse-12) His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

[13](#verse-13) His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

[14](#verse-14) His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

[15](#verse-15) His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

[16](#verse-16) His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

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