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 , yea, drink abundantly , O beloved . 2I sleep , but my heart waketh : it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh , 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 .
The Bride's Regret and Search
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 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and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh , upon the handles of the lock . 6I opened to my beloved ; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone : my soul failed when he spake : I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer .
The Bride's Description of Her Beloved
7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem , if ye find my beloved , that ye tell him, that I am sick of love . 9What is thy beloved more than another beloved , O thou fairest among women ? what is thy beloved more than another beloved , that thou dost so charge us? 10My beloved is white and ruddy , the chiefest 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 is as Lebanon , excellent as the cedars . 16His mouth is most sweet : yea, he is altogether lovely . This is my beloved , and this is my friend , O daughters of Jerusalem .