The Bride and Her Beloved The Bridegroom 1 UEB 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. Eat, friends; drink and be drunk with love. BSB BSB: I have come to 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. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
The Friends The Bride 2 UEB I was asleep, but my heart was awake. There is the sound of my beloved knocking and saying, "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled one, for my head is wet with dew, my hair with the night's dampness." BSB BSB: I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
3 UEB "I have taken off my robe; must I put it on again? I have washed my feet; must I get them dirty?" BSB BSB: I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?
4 UEB My beloved put in his hand through the opening of the door latch, and my heart was stirred up for him. BSB BSB: My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
5 UEB I got up to open the door for my beloved; my hands were dripping with myrrh, my fingers with moist myrrh, on the door handle. BSB BSB: I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
6 UEB I opened the door for my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My heart sank when he spoke. I looked for him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me. BSB BSB: I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
7 UEB The watchmen found me as they were making their rounds in the city. They struck me and wounded me; the guards on the walls took away my cloak from me. BSB BSB: I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
8 UEB I want you to swear, daughters of Jerusalem, that if you find my beloved— What will you make known to him?— that I am sick from love. BSB BSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
The Friends 9 UEB How is your beloved better than another beloved man, most beautiful among women? Why is your beloved better than another beloved, that you ask us to take an oath like this? BSB BSB: How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
The Bride 10 UEB My beloved is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. BSB BSB: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
11 UEB His head is the purest gold; his hair is curly and as black as a raven. BSB BSB: His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 UEB His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, mounted like jewels. BSB BSB: His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 UEB His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding aromatic scents. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh. BSB BSB: His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 UEB His arms are rounded gold set with jewels; his abdomen is ivory covered with sapphires. BSB BSB: His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
15 UEB His legs are pillars of marble, set on bases of pure gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars. BSB BSB: His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
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