Book 30 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - SONGS - Chapter 005
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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
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I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh:
'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.
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I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have
washed my feet; how shall I defile them
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My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my
heart was moved for him
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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with
myrrh, and my fingers with flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bar
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had turned away, and
was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find
him; I called him, but he gave me no answer
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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
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'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my
beloved, what will ye tell him? that I am love-sick.
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'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?
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'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten
thousand
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His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled,
and black as a raven
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His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed
with milk, and fitly set
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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet
herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh
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His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is
as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires
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His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of
fine gold; his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars
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His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Book 30 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - SONGS - Chapter 005
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