The Bride and Her Beloved The Bridegroom 1 ULT I have come to my garden, my sister,{ my} bride; I have plucked 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, beloved ones. 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 ULT I{ am} asleep, but my heart{ is} awake. A sound— my beloved is knocking:“Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, because my head{ is} full of dew, my hair{ is full of} the drops of the night.” 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 ULT “I have taken off my robe; how will I put it on? I have washed my feet; how could 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 ULT My beloved stretched out his hand through the hole and my belly roared concerning him. BSB BSB: My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
5 ULT I got myself up to open to my beloved and my hands dripped{ with} myrrh and my fingers{ dripped with} flowing myrrh on the hands of the bolt. 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 ULT I myself opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul went out because he departed. I searched 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 ULT The guards going about in the city found me. They beat me and wounded me; they lifted my shawl from me, the guards of the walls. 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 ULT I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, what will you declare to him?{ Declare to him} that sick{ with} love{ am} I. BSB BSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
The Friends 9 ULT What{ is} your beloved more than{ another} beloved, most beautiful among women? What{ is} your beloved more than{ another} beloved, that thus you adjure us? 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 ULT My beloved{ is} shimmering and red, distinguished among ten thousand. BSB BSB: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
11 ULT His head{ is} gold, refined gold; his hairs{ are} wavy, black like the raven. BSB BSB: His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
12 ULT His eyes{ are} like doves beside stream beds of water, bathing in milk, sitting beside the pools. BSB BSB: His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
13 ULT His cheeks{ are} like a bed of spices, towers of herbal spices. His lips{ are} lilies, dripping{ with} flowing myrrh. BSB BSB: His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 ULT His arms{ are} rods of gold mounted with topaz; his belly{ is} a plate of ivory covered{ with} sapphires. BSB BSB: His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
15 ULT His thighs{ are} pillars of alabaster set on bases of refined gold; his appearance{ is} like Lebanon,{ as} 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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