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Song of Solomon 5

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¹ I have come to my garden — my sister, my bride. I gather [1] my myrrh with my spices. I eat my honeycomb with my honey. I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, be intoxicated with caresses! [2] ⓘ

² I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. A sound! My love was knocking! ⓙ Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.

³ I have taken off my clothing. ⓚ How can I put it back on? I have washed my feet. How can I get them dirty?

⁴ My love thrust his hand through the opening, and my feelings were stirred for him.

⁵ I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, ⓛ my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.

⁶ I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank [3] because he had left. [4] I sought him, but did not find him. ⓜ I called him, but he did not answer.

⁷ The guards who go about the city found me. ⓝ They beat and wounded me; they took my cloak [5] from me — the guardians of the walls. ⓐ

⁸ Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you, ⓑ if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick. ⓒ

⁹ What makes the one you love better than another, most beautiful of women? ⓓ What makes him better than another, that you would give us this charge?

¹⁰ My love is fit and strong, [6] ⓔ notable among ten thousand. ⓕ

¹¹ His head is purest gold. His hair is wavy [7] ⓖ and black as a raven.

¹² His eyes are like doves ⓗ beside flowing streams, washed in milk and set like jewels. [8]

¹³ His cheeks ⓘ are like beds of spice, mounds of [9] perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh. ⓙ

¹⁴ His arms [10] are rods of gold set [11] with beryl. ⓚ His body [12] is an ivory panel covered with lapis lazuli. ⓛ

¹⁵ His legs are alabaster pillars set on pedestals of pure gold. His presence is like Lebanon, ⓜ as majestic as the cedars. ⓝ

¹⁶ His mouth is sweetness. He is absolutely desirable. ⓐ This is my love, and this is my friend, young women of Jerusalem.

#	CSB
1	I have come to my garden — my sister, my bride. I gather [1] my myrrh with my spices. I eat my honeycomb with my honey. I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, be intoxicated with caresses! [2] ⓘ
2	I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. A sound! My love was knocking! ⓙ Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night.
3	I have taken off my clothing. ⓚ How can I put it back on? I have washed my feet. How can I get them dirty?
4	My love thrust his hand through the opening, and my feelings were stirred for him.
5	I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, ⓛ my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
6	I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank [3] because he had left. [4] I sought him, but did not find him. ⓜ I called him, but he did not answer.
7	The guards who go about the city found me. ⓝ They beat and wounded me; they took my cloak [5] from me — the guardians of the walls. ⓐ
8	Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you, ⓑ if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick. ⓒ
9	What makes the one you love better than another, most beautiful of women? ⓓ What makes him better than another, that you would give us this charge?
10	My love is fit and strong, [6] ⓔ notable among ten thousand. ⓕ
11	His head is purest gold. His hair is wavy [7] ⓖ and black as a raven.
12	His eyes are like doves ⓗ beside flowing streams, washed in milk and set like jewels. [8]
13	His cheeks ⓘ are like beds of spice, mounds of [9] perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh. ⓙ
14	His arms [10] are rods of gold set [11] with beryl. ⓚ His body [12] is an ivory panel covered with lapis lazuli. ⓛ
15	His legs are alabaster pillars set on pedestals of pure gold. His presence is like Lebanon, ⓜ as majestic as the cedars. ⓝ
16	His mouth is sweetness. He is absolutely desirable. ⓐ This is my love, and this is my friend, young women of Jerusalem.

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^{Song of Solomon 5:17 [7]} Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Job

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