Song of Solomon Capítulo 5

This poem describes the joy and ecstasy of love. Symbolically it has been applied to God's love for Israel and Chrit's love for the Church.

American King James Version

5 : 1 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, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

5 : 2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, 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.

5 : 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

5 : 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5 : 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

5 : 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

5 : 7 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.

5 : 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love.

5 : 9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?

5 : 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the most chief among ten thousand.

5 : 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

5 : 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

5 : 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

5 : 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

5 : 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set on sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

5 : 16 His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.