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] bride; I have plucked my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my sugar-cane with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, ye companions; drink, yea, drink abundantly, ye friends.—
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 slept, but my heart was awake: [there was] the voice of my beloved that knocked, “Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my guiltless 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 friend stretched forth his hand through the opening, and my inmost parts 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 myself to open for my friend; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with fluid 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 indeed opened for my beloved; but my beloved had vanished, and was gone: my soul had failed me while he was speaking; I sought him, but I could not find him; 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
Then found me the watchmen that walked about the city; they smote me, they wounded me: they took away my vail from me, they that watched the walls.
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 adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, what will ye 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 thy friend more than another's friend, O thou fairest of women? what is thy friend more than another's friend, that thus thou adjurest us?—
10 beloved my dazzling and red to look from myriad
My friend is white and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
11 head his gold pure gold lock his lock black like/as raven
His head is bright as the finest gold, his locks are like waving foliage, 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 like [those of] doves by streamlets of waters, bathed in milk, well fitted in their setting.
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 turrets of sweet perfumes: his lips, like lilies, dropping with fluid myrrh.
14 hand his circuit gold to fill in/on/with jasper belly his plate tooth: ivory to enwrap sapphire
His hands are like wheels of gold beset with the chrysolite: his body, an image made of 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 like pillars of marble, resting upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent like the cedars.
16 palate his sweetness and all his desire this beloved my and this neighbor my daughter Jerusalem
His palate is full of sweets, and every thing in him is agreeable. This is my friend, and this is my beloved, O daughters of Jerusalem.—
