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I am come into my garden, my sister, <i>my</i> spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, <i>saying</i>, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole <i>of the door</i>, and my belly moved for him.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What is thy kinsman <i>more</i> than <i>another</i> kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman <i>more</i> than <i>another</i> kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His head is <i>as</i> very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>