The Bride and Her Beloved
The Bridegroom
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; Sng 6:2Sng 4:16Rev 22:17Sng 4:9-14Isa 51:3Isa 55:1-2Isa 58:11Isa 61:11
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
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Eat, O friends, and drink;
drink freely, O beloved.
The Bride
I sleep, but my heart is awake. Rev 3:20Sng 2:14Sng 6:9Zec 4:1Psa 119:1Gen 29:20Gen 31:40-41Isa 50:6
A sound! My beloved is knocking:
“Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my flawless one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”
I have taken off my robe— Luk 11:7Mat 25:5Mat 26:38-43Pro 13:4Pro 22:13Pro 3:28Rom 7:22-23
must I put it back on?
I have washed my feet—
must I soil them again?
My beloved put his hand to the latch; 1Ki 3:262Co 8:1-22Co 8:16Act 16:14Gen 43:30Php 2:13Psa 110:3Sng 1:4
my heart pounded for him.
I rose up to open for my beloved. Sng 5:13Eph 3:172Co 7:72Co 7:9-11Luk 12:36Rev 3:20Sng 3:6Sng 4:13-14
My hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
I opened for my beloved, Sng 5:2Hos 5:15Rev 3:191Sa 28:62Sa 16:10Gen 42:28Hos 5:6Isa 12:1
but he had turned and gone.
My heart sank at his departure.
I sought him, but did not find him.
I called, but he did not answer.
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. Sng 3:31Co 4:10-131Pe 4:14-162Co 11:13Act 20:29-30Act 26:9-10Act 5:40-41Heb 11:36-37
They beat me and bruised me;
they took away my cloak,
those guardians of the walls.
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, Sng 2:5Sng 2:7Psa 42:1-3Sng 3:5Gal 6:1-2Psa 119:81-83Psa 63:1-3Psa 77:1-3
if you find my beloved,
tell him I am sick with love.
The Friends
How is your beloved better than others, Sng 1:8Sng 6:1Sng 6:9-10Isa 53:2Mat 16:13-17Psa 45:13Psa 87:32Co 4:3-6
O most beautiful among women?
How is your beloved better than another,
that you charge us so?
The Bride
My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, Psa 45:2Php 2:9-11Psa 45:17Sng 2:11Sa 16:12Col 1:18Deu 32:31Heb 2:10
outstanding among ten thousand.
His head is purest gold; Dan 7:9Eph 1:21-22Rev 1:14Sng 5:2Sng 7:5Dan 2:37-38
his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
His eyes are like doves Sng 1:15Sng 4:1Heb 4:13
beside the streams of water,
bathed in milk
and mounted like jewels.
His cheeks are like beds of spice, Sng 1:10Sng 2:1Sng 6:2Isa 50:6Luk 4:22Psa 27:4Psa 4:6-7Psa 45:2
towers of perfume.
His lips are like lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.
His arms are rods of gold Exo 24:10Isa 54:11Exo 15:6Exo 28:20Exo 39:13Ezk 1:16Ezk 1:26-28Isa 52:13
set with beryl.
His body is an ivory panel
bedecked with sapphires.
His legs are pillars of marble 1Ki 4:33Rev 1:15-161Ti 3:16Act 2:28Exo 26:19Hos 14:7Jdg 13:6Mat 17:2
set on bases of pure gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,
as majestic as the cedars.
His mouth 1is most sweet; Psa 45:2Sng 7:91Pe 2:6-7Gal 2:20Hos 3:1Isa 9:6-7Jas 2:23Jas 4:4
he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.