< Song of Solomon 5 >

1 to come (in): come to/for garden my sister my daughter-in-law: bride to pluck myrrh my with spice my to eat honeycomb my with honey my to drink wine my with milk my to eat neighbor to drink and be drunk beloved: love
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: 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, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2 I sleeping and heart my to rouse voice: sound beloved my to beat to open to/for me sister my darling my dove my complete my which/that head my to fill dew lock my drop night
I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 to strip [obj] tunic my how? to clothe her to wash: wash [obj] foot my how? to soil them
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 beloved my to send: reach hand his from [the] hole and belly my to roar upon him
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5 to arise: rise I to/for to open to/for beloved my and hand my to drip/prophesy myrrh and finger my myrrh to pass upon palm [the] bolt
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
6 to open I to/for beloved my and beloved my to turn away to pass soul my to come out: surrender in/on/with to speak: speak he to seek him and not to find him to call: call to him and not to answer me
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 to find me [the] to keep: guard [the] to turn: surround in/on/with city to smite me to wound me to lift: raise [obj] veil my from upon me to keep: guard [the] wall
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they stroke me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 to swear [obj] you daughter Jerusalem if to find [obj] beloved my what? to tell to/for him which/that be weak: ill love I
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if all of you find my beloved, that all of you tell him, that I am sick of love.
9 what? beloved your from beloved [the] beautiful in/on/with woman what? beloved your from beloved which/that thus to swear us
What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?
10 beloved my dazzling and red to look from myriad
My beloved is white and rosy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
11 head his gold pure gold lock his lock black like/as raven
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12 eye his like/as dove upon channel water to wash: wash in/on/with milk to dwell upon setting
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13 jaw his like/as bed [the] spice tower spice lips his lily to drip/prophesy myrrh to pass
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
14 hand his circuit gold to fill in/on/with jasper belly his plate tooth: ivory to enwrap sapphire
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15 leg his pillar alabaster to found upon socket pure gold appearance his like/as Lebanon to choose like/as cedar
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 palate his sweetness and all his desire this beloved my and this neighbor my daughter Jerusalem
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

< Song of Solomon 5 >