5: 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my ⁴²spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yes, drink abundantly, ⁴³O beloved.
⁴²Or, balsam;
⁴³Or, of love.

5: 2 I ⁴⁴was 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 ⁴⁵undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
⁴⁴Or, sleep, but my heart waketh:
⁴⁵Hb. perfect;

5: 3 I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
5: 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my ⁴⁶heart was moved for him.
⁴⁶Hb. bowels

5: 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dripped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
5: 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had ⁴⁷withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul ⁴⁸had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
⁴⁷Or, turned away,
⁴⁸Hb. went forth when he spake:

5: 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my ⁴⁹mantle from me.
⁴⁹Or, veil

5: 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, ⁵⁰That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
⁵⁰Hb. What will ye tell him? That I am sick from love.

5: 9 What 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?
5: 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, ⁵¹The chiefest among ten thousand.
⁵¹Hb. Marked out by a banner among ten thousand.

5: 11 His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are ⁵²bushy, and black as a raven.
⁵²Or, curling,

5: 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, and ⁵³fitly set.
⁵³Or, sitting by full streams.

5: 13 His cheeks are as a bed of ⁵⁴spices, as ⁵⁵banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
⁵⁴Or, the balsam,
⁵⁵Or, towers of perfumes:

5: 14 His hands are as ⁵⁶rings of gold set with ⁵⁷beryl: His body is as ⁵⁸ivory work ⁵⁹overlaid with sapphires.
⁵⁶Or, cylinders
⁵⁷Or, the topaz:
⁵⁸Or, bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
⁵⁹Or, encrusted

5: 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
5: 16 His ⁶⁰mouth is most sweet; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
⁶⁰Or, speech Hb. palate