1I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride:I have gathered my myrrh with my 1spice;I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;I have drunk my wine with my milk.Eat, O friends;Drink, yea, drink abundantly, 2O beloved.
2I 3was 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 4undefiled;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 5heart 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 6withdrawn himself, and was gone.My soul 7had 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 8mantle from me.8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,If ye find my beloved,9That 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,10The chiefest among ten thousand.11His head is as the most fine gold;His locks are 11bushy, and black as a raven.12His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,Washed with milk, and 12fitly set.13His cheeks are as a bed of 13spices,As 14banks of sweet herbs:His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.14His hands are as 15rings of gold set with 16beryl:His body is as 17ivory work 18overlaid 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 19mouth is most sweet;Yea, he is altogether lovely.This is my beloved, and this is my friend,O daughters of Jerusalem.