Song of Solomon 5

1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

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

2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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

3 I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

to strip [obj] tunic my how? to clothe her to wash: wash [obj] foot my how? to soil them

4 My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

beloved my to send: reach hand his from [the] hole and belly my to roar upon him

5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

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

6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

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

7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

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

8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

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

9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest amongst women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us?

what? beloved your from beloved [the] beautiful in/on/with woman what? beloved your from beloved which/that thus to swear us

10 My beloved is white and ruddy. The best amongst ten thousand.

beloved my dazzling and red to look from myriad

11 His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.

head his gold pure gold lock his lock black like/as raven

12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

eye his like/as dove upon channel water to wash: wash in/on/with milk to dwell upon setting

13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

jaw his like/as bed [the] spice tower spice lips his lily to drip/prophesy myrrh to pass

14 His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.

hand his circuit gold to fill in/on/with jasper belly his plate tooth: ivory to enwrap sapphire

15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

leg his pillar alabaster to found upon socket pure gold appearance his like/as Lebanon to choose like/as cedar

16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

palate his sweetness and all his desire this beloved my and this neighbor my daughter Jerusalem