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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 ESV</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" /></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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/songs/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><subheading class="speaker">He</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,</span><br /><span class="indent">I gathered my myrrh with my spice,</span><br /><span class="indent">I ate my honeycomb with my honey,</span><br /><span class="indent">I drank my wine with my milk.</span></p><subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Eat, friends, drink,</span><br /><span class="indent">and be drunk with love!</span></p> <p class="heading">The Bride Searches for Her Beloved</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I slept, but my heart was awake.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">A sound! My beloved is knocking.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Open to me, my sister, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent">my dove, my perfect one,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for my head is wet with dew,</span><br /><span class="indent">my locks with the drops of the night.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I had put off my garment;</span><br /><span class="indent">how could I put it on?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I had bathed my feet;</span><br /><span class="indent">how could I soil them?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My beloved put his hand to the latch,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my heart was thrilled within me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I arose to open to my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my hands dripped with myrrh,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">my fingers with liquid myrrh,</span><br /><span class="indent">on the handles of the bolt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I opened to my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">but my beloved had turned and gone.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My soul failed me when he spoke.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I sought him, but found him not;</span><br /><span class="indent">I called him, but he gave no answer.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The watchmen found me</span><br /><span class="indent">as they went about in the city;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they beat me, they bruised me,</span><br /><span class="indent">they took away my veil,</span><br /><span class="indent">those watchmen of the walls.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">if you find my beloved,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that you tell him</span><br /><span class="indent">I am sick with love.</span></p> <subheading class="speaker">Others</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What is your beloved more than another beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">O most beautiful among women?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">What is your beloved more than another beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent">that you thus adjure us?</span></p> <p class="heading">The Bride Praises Her Beloved</p><span class="block-indent"><subheading class="speaker">She</subheading><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My beloved is radiant and ruddy,</span><br /><span class="indent">distinguished among ten thousand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His head is the finest gold;</span><br /><span class="indent">his locks are wavy,</span><br /><span class="indent">black as a raven.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His eyes are like doves</span><br /><span class="indent">beside streams of water,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">bathed in milk,</span><br /><span class="indent">sitting beside a full pool.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His cheeks are like beds of spices,</span><br /><span class="indent">mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">His lips are lilies,</span><br /><span class="indent">dripping liquid myrrh.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His arms are rods of gold,</span><br /><span class="indent">set with jewels.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">His body is polished ivory,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">bedecked with sapphires.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lapis lazuli">c</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His legs are alabaster columns,</span><br /><span class="indent">set on bases of gold.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">His appearance is like Lebanon,</span><br /><span class="indent">choice as the cedars.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His mouth<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew palate">d</a></sup></span> is most sweet,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he is altogether desirable.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">This is my beloved and this is my friend,</span><br /><span class="indent">O daughters of Jerusalem.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i>lapis lazuli</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span 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