I 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.
I 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.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
my beloved put in his hand by the hole [ of the door], And my bowels were moved for him.
I 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.
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [ And] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.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 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.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [ am] sick of love.
what [ 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?
my beloved [ Is] white And ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
his head [ Is as] the most fine gold, his locks [ are] bushy, [ And] black as A raven.
his eyes [ are] as [ the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, [ And] fitly set.
his cheeks [ are] as A bed of spices, [ as] sweet flowers: his lips [ like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
his hands [ are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [ Is as] bright ivory overlaid [ with] sapphires.
his legs [ are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [ Is] as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
his mouth [ Is] most sweet: yea, he [ Is] altogether lovely. this [ Is] my beloved, And this [ Is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.