5 I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride:
I have gathered my myrrh with my ^[a]spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
Eat, O friends;
Drink, yea, drink abundantly, ^[b]O beloved.

² I ^[c]was asleep, but my heart waked:
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my ^[d]undefiled;
For my head is filled with dew,
My locks with the drops of the night.
³ I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
⁴ My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
And my ^[e]heart was moved for him.
⁵ I rose up to open to my beloved;
And my hands dropped with myrrh,
And my fingers with liquid myrrh,
Upon the handles of the bolt.
⁶ I opened to my beloved;
But my beloved had ^[f]withdrawn himself, and was gone.
My soul ^[g]had failed me when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
⁷ The watchmen that go about the city found me,
They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my ^[h]mantle from me.
⁸ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If ye find my beloved,
^[i]That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

⁹ What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
O thou fairest among women?
What is thy beloved more than another beloved,
That thou dost so adjure us?

¹⁰ My beloved is white and ruddy,
^[j]The chiefest among ten thousand.
¹¹ His head is as the most fine gold;
His locks are ^[k]bushy, and black as a raven.
¹² His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,
Washed with milk, and ^[l]fitly set.
¹³ His cheeks are as a bed of ^[m]spices,
As ^[n]banks of sweet herbs:
His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
¹⁴ His hands are as ^[o]rings of gold set with ^[p]beryl:
His body is as ^[q]ivory work ^[r]overlaid with sapphires.
¹⁵ His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
¹⁶ His ^[s]mouth is most sweet;
Yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.