[1] I have come 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, || Indeed, drink abundantly, O beloved ones! [2] I am sleeping, but my heart wakes: 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.” [3] I have put off my coat, how do I put it on? I have washed my feet, how do I defile them? [4] My beloved sent his hand from the network, || And my bowels were moved for him. [5] I rose to open to my beloved, || And my hands dripped myrrh, || Indeed, my fingers were flowing [with] myrrh, || On the handles of the lock. [6] I opened to my beloved, || But my beloved withdrew—he passed on, || My soul went forth when he spoke, I sought him, and did not find him. I called him, and he did not answer me. [7] The watchmen who go around the city, || Found me, struck me, wounded me, || Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me. [8] I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, || If you find my beloved—What do you tell him? That I [am] sick with love! [9] What [is] your beloved above [any] beloved, || O beautiful among women? What [is] your beloved above [any] beloved, || That thus you have adjured us? [10] My beloved [is] clear and ruddy, || Conspicuous above a myriad! [11] His head [is] pure gold—fine gold, || His locks flowing, dark as a raven, [12] His eyes as doves by streams of water, || Washing in milk, sitting in fullness. [13] His cheeks [are] as a bed of the spice, towers of perfumes, || His lips—lilies, dripping [and] flowing [with] myrrh, [14] His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, || His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires, [15] His limbs pillars of marble, || Founded on sockets of fine gold, || His appearance as Lebanon, choice as the cedars. [16] His mouth is sweetness—and all of him desirable, || This [is] my beloved, and this my friend, || O daughters of Jerusalem!
