1[Lov.] I am come to my garden, my sister, my spouse! I gather my myrrh with my balsam, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends! Drink, yea, drink abundantly, my loved companions!

stylus

Song of Solomon 6:2, Song of Solomon 6:2, Song of Solomon 4:16, Song of Solomon 4:16, Song of Solomon 4:9

2[M.] I slept, but my heart was awake; It was the voice of my beloved, who was knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is filled with dew, And my locks with the drops of the night."

stylus

Revelation 3:20, Revelation 3:20, Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 6:9

3"I have taken off my vest [said I]; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I soil them?"

stylus

Luke 11:7, Luke 11:7, Proverbs 3:28, Proverbs 13:4, Matthew 25:5

4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my heart was moved for him.

stylus

Philippians 2:13, Psalms 110:3, Song of Solomon 1:4, Acts 16:14, 1 Kings 3:26

5I rose up to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with self-flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

stylus

Song of Solomon 5:13, Song of Solomon 5:13, Ephesians 3:17, Ephesians 3:17, 2 Corinthians 7:9

6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. I was not in my senses while he spake with me! I sought him, but could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

stylus

Song of Solomon 5:2, Song of Solomon 5:2, Revelation 3:19, Revelation 3:19, Song of Solomon 6:1

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

stylus

Song of Solomon 3:3, Song of Solomon 3:3, John 16:2, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 6:11

8I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem! If ye should find my beloved,—What will ye tell him? That I am sick with love.

stylus

Song of Solomon 2:5, Song of Solomon 2:7, Song of Solomon 2:5, Song of Solomon 2:7, Psalms 42:1

9[Lad.] What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women! What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thus thou dost charge us?

stylus

Song of Solomon 1:8, Song of Solomon 6:1, Song of Solomon 1:8, Song of Solomon 6:1, Song of Solomon 6:9

10[M.] My beloved is white and ruddy, The chief among ten thousand.

stylus

Psalms 45:2, Psalms 45:2, Philippians 2:9, Philippians 2:11, Psalms 45:17

11His head is as the most fine gold; His locks waving palm-branches, Black as a raven;

stylus

Daniel 7:9, Revelation 1:14, Song of Solomon 7:5, Song of Solomon 5:2, Ephesians 1:21

12His eyes are doves by streams of water, Washed with milk, dwelling in fulness;

stylus

Song of Solomon 4:1, Song of Solomon 1:15, Song of Solomon 4:1, Song of Solomon 1:15, Hebrews 4:13

13His cheeks are like a bed of balsam, Like beds of spices; His lips are lilies Dropping self-flowing myrrh;

stylus

Song of Solomon 1:10, Song of Solomon 1:10, Song of Solomon 6:2, Song of Solomon 2:1, Song of Solomon 6:2

14His hands are gold rings set with chrysolite; His body is wrought-work of ivory, overlaid with sapphires;

stylus

Exodus 24:10, Exodus 24:10, Isaiah 54:11, Isaiah 54:11, Exodus 28:20

15His legs are marble pillars, resting on pedestals of fine gold; His aspect is like Lebanon, Majestic like the cedars;

stylus

1 Kings 4:33, Revelation 1:15, Revelation 1:16, 1 Kings 4:33, Revelation 1:15

16His mouth is sweetness; His whole being, loveliness. This is my beloved, This my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem!

stylus

Psalms 45:2, Psalms 45:2, Song of Solomon 7:9, Song of Solomon 7:9, Song of Solomon 2:16