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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Song of Solomon 5 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/songs/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//songs/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Songs 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/4.htm" title="Song of Solomon 4">◄</a> Song of Solomon 5 <a href="../songs/6.htm" title="Song of Solomon 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/songs/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Bride and Her Beloved<p class="ihdg">The Bridegroom<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; <p class="indent2"> I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. <p class="indent1"> I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; <p class="indent2"> I have drunk my wine with my milk. <p class="ihdg">The Friends<p class="indent1stline"> Eat, O friends, and drink; <p class="indent2"> drink freely, O beloved. <A name="3"></a><p class="ihdg">The Bride<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I sleep, but my heart is awake. <p class="indent2"> A sound! My beloved is knocking: <p class="indent1">“Open to me, my sister, my darling, <p class="indent2"> my dove, my flawless one. <p class="indent1"> My head is drenched with dew, <p class="indent2"> my hair with the dampness of the night.” <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have taken off my robe—<p class="indent2"> must I put it back on? <p class="indent1"> I have washed my feet—<p class="indent2"> must I soil them again? <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My beloved put his hand to the latch; <p class="indent2"> my heart pounded for him. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I rose up to open for my beloved. <p class="indent2"> My hands dripped with myrrh, <p class="indent1"> my fingers with flowing myrrh <p class="indent2"> on the handles of the bolt. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I opened for my beloved, <p class="indent2"> but he had turned and gone. <p class="indent1"> My heart sank at his departure. <p class="indent2"> I sought him but did not find him. <p class="indent2"> I called, but he did not answer. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. <p class="indent2"> They beat me and bruised me; <p class="indent1"> they took away my cloak, <p class="indent2"> those guardians of the walls. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, <p class="indent2"> if you find my beloved, <p class="indent2"> tell him I am sick with love. <A name="10"></a><p class="ihdg">The Friends<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>How is your beloved better than others, <p class="indent2"> O most beautiful among women? <p class="indent1"> How is your beloved better than another, <p class="indent2"> that you charge us so? <A name="11"></a><p class="ihdg">The Bride<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, <p class="indent2"> outstanding among ten thousand. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>His head is purest gold; <p class="indent2"> his hair is wavy and black as a raven. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His eyes are like doves <p class="indent2"> beside the streams of water, <p class="indent1"> bathed in milk <p class="indent2"> and mounted like jewels. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>His cheeks are like beds of spice, <p class="indent2"> towers of perfume. <p class="indent1"> His lips are like lilies, <p class="indent2"> dripping with flowing myrrh. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>His arms are rods of gold <p class="indent2"> set with beryl. <p class="indent1"> His body is polished ivory <p class="indent2"> bedecked with sapphires. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His legs are pillars of marble <p class="indent2"> set on bases of pure gold. <p class="indent1"> His appearance is like Lebanon, <p class="indent2"> as majestic as the cedars. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>His mouth<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> is most sweet; <p class="indent2"> he is altogether lovely. <p class="indent1"> This is my beloved, and this is my friend, <p class="indent2"> O daughters of Jerusalem.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>palate</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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