KJB-1611 SNG Chapter 5

0 1 Christ awaketh the Church with his calling. 2 The Church hauing a taste of Christes loue, is sicke of loue. 9 A description of Christ by his graces. V ¶ [fn]I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrrhe with my spice, I haue eaten my honie combe with my hony, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, yea drinke abundantly, O beloued! 2 ¶ I sleepe, but my heart waketh: it is the voyce of my beloued that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for my head is filled with dewe, and my lockes with the drops of the night. 3 I haue put off my coate, how shall I put it on? I haue washed my feete, how shall I defile them? 4 [fn]My beloued put in his hand by the hole of the dore, and my bowels were moued for him. 5 [fn]I rose vp to open to my beloued, and my hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with sweete smelling myrrhe, vpon the handles of the locke. 6 I opened to my beloued, but my beloued had with drawen himselfe, and was gone: my soule failed when hee spake: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gaue me no answere. 7 The watchmen that went about the citie, found me, they smote me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walles tooke away my vaile from me. 8 [fn]I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if ye find my beloued, that yee tell him, that I am sicke of loue. 9 ¶ What is thy beloued more then another beloued, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloued more then another beloued, that thou doest so charge vs? 10 [fn]My beloued is white and ruddy, the chiefest among tenne thousand. 11 [fn]His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and blacke as a Rauen. 12 [fn][fn]His eyes are as the eyes of doues by the riuers of water, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 [fn]His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe. 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright iuorie, ouerlayd with Saphires. 15 His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars. 16 [fn]His mouth is most sweete, yea he is altogether louely. This is my beloued, and this is my friend, O daughters of Ierusalem.

5:1 Or, and be drunken with loues.

5:4 Or, (as some read) in me.

5:5 Heb. passing, or running about.

5:8 Heb. what.

5:10 Heb. astandard bearer

5:11 Or, curled.

5:12 Chap. 1.15. & 4.1.

5:12 Heb sitting in fulnesse, that is fitly placed, and set as a precious stone in the foile of a ring.

5:13 Or, towers of perfumes.

5:16 Heb. his palate.

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