Song of Solomon 5 HCSB
to my garden — my sister, my bride.
I gathera my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
Drink, be intoxicated with love!b, c
W 2I sleep, but my heart is awake.
A sound! My love is knocking!d
M Open to me, my sister, my darling,
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
W 3I have taken off my clothing.e
4My love thrust his hand through the opening,
and my feelings were stirred for him.
but my love had turned and gone away.
I was crushedg that he had left.h
I sought him, but did not find him.i
I called him, but he did not answer.
7The guards who go about the city found me.j
8Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:m
Y 9What makes the one you love better than another,
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
W 10My love is fit and strong,p, q
11His head is purest gold.
13His cheeksw are like beds of spice,
15His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,af
16His mouth is sweetness.
This is my love, and this is my friend,
Footnotes:
a. 5:1 Lit pluck
b. 5:1 Or Drink your fill, lovers
c. 5:1 Pr 5:19
d. 5:2 Sg 2:8
e. 5:3 Lk 11:7
f. 5:5 Sg 5:13
g. 5:6 Lit My soul went out
h. 5:6 Or spoken
i. 5:6 Sg 3:1-2
j. 5:7 Sg 3:3
k. 5:7 Or veil, or shawl
l. 5:7 Sg 8:9-10
m. 5:8 Sg 2:7; 3:5; 8:4
n. 5:8 Sg 2:5
o. 5:9 Sg 1:8; 6:1
p. 5:10 Or is radiant and ruddy
q. 5:10 1Sm 16:12
r. 5:10 Ps 45:2
s. 5:11 Or is like&dprbrk; palm leaves ; Hb obscure
t. 5:11 Sg 5:2
u. 5:12 Sg 1:15; 4:1
v. 5:12 Lit milk sitting in fullness
w. 5:13 Sg 1:10
x. 5:13 LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
y. 5:13 Sg 5:5
z. 5:14 Lit hands
aa. 5:14 Lit filled ; Sg 5:2,12
ab. 5:14 Probably yellow topaz
ac. 5:14 Ex 28:20; 39:13; Ezk 1:16
ad. 5:14 Lit abdomen
ae. 5:14 Ex 24:10
af. 5:15 Sg 7:4-5
ag. 5:15 1Kg 4:33
ah. 5:16 Sg 4:7