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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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="../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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/songs/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Bride and Her Beloved<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>May my beloved enter into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees.</font> <V 5:2>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>I have arrived in my garden, O my sister, my spouse. I have harvested my myrrh, with my aromatic oils. I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey. I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, O most beloved.</font><p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>I sleep, yet my heart watches. The voice of my beloved knocking:</font> <V 5:4>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my immaculate one. For my head is full of dew, and the locks of my hair are full of the drops of the night.</font><p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>I have taken off my tunic; how shall I be clothed in it? I have washed my feet; how shall I spoil them?</font><p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>My beloved put his hand through the window, and my inner self was moved by his touch.</font><p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>I rose up in order to open to my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the finest myrrh.</font><p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved. But he had turned aside and had gone away. My soul melted when he spoke. I sought him, and did not find him. I called, and he did not answer me.</font><p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>The keepers who circulate through the city found me. They struck me, and wounded me. The keepers of the walls took my veil away from me.</font><p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, announce to him that I languish through love.</font><p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>What kind of beloved is your beloved, O most beautiful among women? What kind of beloved is your beloved, so that you would bind us by oath?</font><p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bride: <font color=#0000CC>My beloved is white and ruddy, elect among thousands.</font><p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His head is like the finest gold. His locks are like the heights of palm trees, and as black as a raven.</font><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His eyes are like doves, which have been washed with milk over rivulets of waters, and which reside near plentiful streams.</font><p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His cheeks are like a courtyard of aromatic plants, sown by perfumers. His lips are like lilies, dripping with the best myrrh.</font><p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His hands are smoothed gold, full of hyacinths. His abdomen is ivory, accented with sapphires.</font><p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His legs are columns of marble, which have been established over bases of gold. His appearance is like that of Lebanon, elect like the cedars.</font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=#0000CC>His throat is most sweet, and he is entirely desirable. Such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.</font><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<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>