Song of Solomon 5:1 (ASV)
I am come into my garden, my sister, `my' bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song of Solomon 5:2 (ASV)
I 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 undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.

Song of Solomon 5:3 (ASV)
I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

Song of Solomon 5:4 (ASV)
My beloved put in his hand by the hole `of the door', And my heart was moved for him.

Song of Solomon 5:5 (ASV)
I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands droppeth with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.

Song of Solomon 5:6 (ASV)
I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, `and' was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Song of Solomon 5:7 (ASV)
The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

Song of Solomon 5:8 (ASV)
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.

Song of Solomon 5:9 (ASV)
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?

Song of Solomon 5:10 (ASV)
My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.

Song of Solomon 5:11 (ASV)
His head is `as' the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, `and' black as a raven.

Song of Solomon 5:12 (ASV)
His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, `and' fitly set.

Song of Solomon 5:13 (ASV)
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, `As' banks of sweet herbs: His lips are `as' lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Song of Solomon 5:14 (ASV)
His hands are `as' rings of gold set with beryl: His body is `as' ivory work overlaid `with' sapphires.

Song of Solomon 5:15 (ASV)
His legs are `as' pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Song of Solomon 5:16 (ASV)
His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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