¹I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: 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; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

²I sleep, but my heart wakes: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocks, [saying] , Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.

³I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

⁴My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door] , and my bowels (inward parts; affections) were moved for him.

⁵I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

⁶I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

⁷The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

⁸I charge you, O daughters of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , if you2f find my beloved, that you2f tell him, that I [am] sick of love.

⁹What [is] youi beloved more than [another] beloved, O youi fairest among women? what [is] youi beloved more than [another] beloved, that youi do so charge us?

¹⁰My beloved [is] white and ruddy (reddish hair or complexion) , the most important among ten thousand.

¹¹His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

¹²His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly set.

¹³His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

¹⁴His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires.

¹⁵His legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor) [is] as L’vanon [Whiteness] , excellent as the cedars.

¹⁶His mouth [is] most sweet: yes, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] .