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
Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.
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 is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: 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 kinsman put forth his hand by the hole [of the door], and my belly 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 kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on 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 kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.
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 watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they struck 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 have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you should find my kinsman, what are you to say to him? That I am wounded with 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 kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, that you have so charged us?
10 beloved my dazzling and red to look from myriad
My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.
11 head his gold pure gold lock his lock black like/as raven
His head is [as] very fine gold, his locks are flowing, 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 doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.
13 jaw his like/as bed [the] spice tower spice lips his lily to drip/prophesy myrrh to pass
His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.
14 hand his circuit gold to fill in/on/with jasper belly his plate tooth: ivory to enwrap sapphire
His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.
15 leg his pillar alabaster to found upon socket pure gold appearance his like/as Lebanon to choose like/as cedar
His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.
16 palate his sweetness and all his desire this beloved my and this neighbor my daughter Jerusalem
His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.
