# Song 5
## The Bride and Her Beloved
*The Bridegroom*
- 1 I have come to 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 [[H3196|my wine]] with my milk.
*The Friends*
- Eat, O friends, and drink;
- drink freely, O beloved.
*The Bride*
- 2 I sleep, but my heart is awake.
- A sound! My beloved 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 back on?
- I have washed my feet —
- must I soil them again?
- 4 My beloved put his hand to the latch;
- my heart pounded for him.
- 5 I rose up to open for my beloved.
- My hands dripped with myrrh,
- my fingers with flowing myrrh
- on the handles of the bolt.
- 6 I opened for my beloved,
- but he had turned and gone.
- My heart sank at his departure. {[[#^niv-22-05-a| niv-a ]]}
- I sought him, but did not find him.
- I called, but he did not answer.
- 7 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city.
- They beat me and bruised me;
- they took away my cloak,
- those guardians of the walls.
- 8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you,
- if you find my beloved,
- tell him I am sick with love.
*The Friends*
- 9 How is your beloved better than others,
- O most beautiful among women?
- How is your beloved better than another,
- that you charge us so?
*The Bride*
- 10 My beloved is dazzling 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
- beside the streams of water,
- bathed in milk
- and mounted like jewels.
- 13 His cheeks are like beds of spice,
- towers of perfume.
- His lips are like lilies,
- dripping with flowing myrrh.
- 14 His arms are rods of gold
- set with beryl.
- His body is an ivory panel
- bedecked with sapphires.
- 15 His legs are pillars of marble
- set on bases of pure gold.
- His appearance is like Lebanon,
- as majestic as the cedars.
- 16 His mouth {[[#^bsb-22-05-a| bsb-a ]]} is most sweet;
- he is altogether lovely.
- This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
- O daughters of Jerusalem.
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### Footnotes:
- BSB
- 16 a Hebrew *palate* ^bsb-22-05-a
- NIV
- a 6 Or *heart had gone out to him when he spoke* ^niv-22-05-a
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