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    Man
    1I have come to my garden — my sister, my bride.
    I gather5:1 Lit pluck my myrrh with my spices.
    I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
    I drink my wine with my milk.
    Narrator
    Eat, friends!
    Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!5:1 Or Drink your fill, lovers5:1 Pr 5:19
    Woman
    2I was sleeping, but my heart was awake.
    A sound! My love was knocking!5:2 Sg 2:8
    Man
    Open to me, my sister, my darling,
    my dove, my perfect one.
    For my head is drenched with dew,
    my hair with droplets of the night.
    Woman
    3I have taken off my clothing.5:3 Lk 11:7
    How can I put it back on?
    I have washed my feet.
    How can I get them dirty?
    4My love thrust his hand through the opening,
    and my feelings were stirred for him.
    5I rose to open for my love.
    My hands dripped with myrrh,5:5 Sg 5:13
    my fingers with flowing myrrh
    on the handles of the bolt.
    6I opened to my love,
    but my love had turned and gone away.
    My heart sank5:6 Lit My soul went out because he had left.5:6 Or spoken
    I sought him, but did not find him.5:6 Sg 3:1–2
    I called him, but he did not answer.
    7The guards who go about the city found me.5:7 Sg 3:3
    They beat and wounded me;
    they took my cloak5:7 Or veil, or shawl from me —
    the guardians of the walls.5:7 Sg 8:9–10
    8Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,5:8 Sg 2:7; 3:5; 8:4
    if you find my love,
    tell him that I am lovesick.5:8 Sg 2:5
    Young Women
    9What makes the one you love better than another,
    most beautiful of women?5:9 Sg 1:8; 6:1
    What makes him better than another,
    that you would give us this charge?
    Woman

    10My love is fit and strong,5:10 Or is radiant and ruddy5:10 1Sm 16:12
    notable among ten thousand.5:10 Ps 45:2

    11His head is purest gold.
    His hair is wavy5:11 Or is like palm leaves; Hb obscure5:11 Sg 5:2
    and black as a raven.
    12His eyes are like doves5:12 Sg 1:15; 4:1
    beside flowing streams,
    washed in milk
    and set like jewels.5:12 Lit milk sitting in fullness
    13His cheeks5:13 Sg 1:10 are like beds of spice,
    mounds of5:13 LXX, Vg read spice, yielding perfume.
    His lips are lilies,
    dripping with flowing myrrh.5:13 Sg 5:5
    14His arms5:14 Lit hands are rods of gold
    set5:14 Lit filled; Sg 5:2,12 with beryl.5:14 Ex 28:20; 39:13; Ezk 1:16
    His body5:14 Lit abdomen is an ivory panel
    covered with lapis lazuli.5:14 Ex 24:10
    15His legs are alabaster pillars
    set on pedestals of pure gold.
    His presence is like Lebanon,5:15 Sg 7:4–5
    as majestic as the cedars.5:15 1Kg 4:33
    16His mouth is sweetness.
    He is absolutely desirable.5:16 Sg 4:7
    This is my love, and this is my friend,
    young women of Jerusalem.

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