bes - 5

bes@Songs:5:1 @ Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my 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.

bes@Songs:5:2 @ I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, 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.

bes@Songs:5:3 @ I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

bes@Songs:5:4 @ My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly moved for him.

bes@Songs:5:5 @ I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

bes@Songs:5:6 @ I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul (note:)Gr. went forth(:note) failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.

bes@Songs:5:7 @ 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.

bes@Songs:5:8 @ 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.

bes@Songs:5:9 @ What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?

bes@Songs:5:10 @ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

bes@Songs:5:11 @ His head is as very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven.

bes@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

bes@Songs:5:13 @ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

bes@Songs:5:14 @ His hands are as (note:)Or, gold rings(:note) turned gold set with q. d. from Tarshish beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

bes@Songs:5:15 @ His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.

bes@Songs:5:16 @ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

bes@Songs:5:17 @ Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? whither has thy kinsman (note:)Gr. looked aside(:note) turned aside? tell us, and we will seek him with thee.

Songs 5