Song of Songs 55Song of SongsThe weddingYoung’s Literal Translation

Young’s Literal TranslationBerean Standard Bible

1. The Bride and Her Beloved

   The Bridegroom

2. 1YLTI have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!BSBBSB: 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.

3. The Friends

   The Bride

4. 2YLTI am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! 'Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with drops of the night.'BSBBSB: 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.”
5. 3YLTI have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them?BSBBSB: I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?
6. 4YLTMy beloved sent his hand from the net-work, And my bowels were moved for him.BSBBSB: My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
7. 5YLTI rose to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped myrrh, Yea, my fingers flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock.BSBBSB: I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
8. 6YLTI opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew — he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.BSBBSB: 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.
9. 7YLTThe watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.BSBBSB: 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.
10. 8YLTI have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved — What do ye tell him? that I am sick with love!BSBBSB: O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

11. The Friends

12. 9YLTWhat is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?BSBBSB: How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

13. The Bride

14. 10YLTMy beloved is clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!BSBBSB: My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
15. 11YLTHis head is pure gold — fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,BSBBSB: His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
16. 12YLTHis eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.BSBBSB: His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
17. 13YLTHis cheeks as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, His lips are lilies, dropping flowing myrrh,BSBBSB: His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
18. 14YLTHis hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires,BSBBSB: His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
19. 15YLTHis limbs pillars of marble, Founded on sockets of fine gold, His appearance as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.BSBBSB: His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
20. 16YLTHis mouth is sweetness — and all of him desirable, This is my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!BSBBSB: His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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