1
M I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gather(a) my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
I gather(a) my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
2
M 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.
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
3
W I have taken off my clothing.(C)
How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I get them dirty?
4 How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I get them dirty?
My love thrust his hand through the opening,
and my feelings were stirred for him.
5 and my feelings were stirred for him.
I rose to open for my love.
My hands dripped with myrrh,(D)
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
6
7
8 My hands dripped with myrrh,(D)
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
9
Y What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?(J)
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
most beautiful of women?(J)
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
Footnotes:
a.
Song of Solomon 5:1: Lit pluck
b.
Song of Solomon 5:1: Or Drink your fill, lovers
c.
Song of Solomon 5:6: Lit My soul went out
d.
Song of Solomon 5:6: Or spoken
e.
Song of Solomon 5:7: Or veil, or shawl
f.
Song of Solomon 5:10: Or is radiant and ruddy
g.
Song of Solomon 5:11: Or is [like] palm leaves; Hb obscure
h.
Song of Solomon 5:12: Lit milk sitting in fullness
i.
Song of Solomon 5:13: LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
j.
Song of Solomon 5:14: Lit hands
k.
Song of Solomon 5:14: Lit filled; Sg 5:2,12
l.
Song of Solomon 5:14: Probably yellow topaz
m.
Song of Solomon 5:14: Lit abdomen