OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET-RV SNG Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8
OET-RV SNG 5 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16
This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
5:2 The fourth song
The groom
“Open to me, my girlfriend, my darling, my dove, my perfect one,
The bride
3 “I’ve already undressed—do I have to get dressed again?
I’ve washed my feet—won’t I get them dirty now?”
4 My dearest stretched out his hand through the hole
and my stomach tightened when I saw him.
5 I got myself up to open to my dearest and my hands dripped with myrrh.
My fingers dripped with flowing myrrh on the arm of the bolt.
6 I opened the door to my dearest,
but my dearest had turned and gone.
My stomach sunk because he’d left.
I searched for him, but I couldn’t find him.
≈ I called him, but he didn’t answer me.
7 The guards going about in the city found me.
The guards of the walls took my shawl off me.
8 I adjure you, young women of Yerushalem (Jerusalem):
Yerushalem’s young women
9 Most beautiful among women, how is your dearest better than another darling?
What is your dearest more than another, that you adjure us like that?
The bride
10 My dearest is dazzling and red—
→ he would stand out among ten thousand.
11 His head is gold, refined gold.
≈ His hair is wavy, and black like the raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water,
≈ bathing in milk, sitting beside the pools.
13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices—like towers where aromatic herbs are hung.
≈ His lips are lilies—dripping with flowing myrrh.
14 His arms are rods of gold mounted with topaz stones.
≈ His belly is a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
15 His thighs are pillars of alabaster set on bases of refined gold.
≈ His appearance is like Levanon—as attractive as the cedar trees.
≈ and all of him is most desirable.
This is my dearest, and this is my friend,
young women of Yerushalem (Jerusalem).
6 Yerushalem’s young women
6 Where did he go, your dearest, most beautiful woman among women?
Where did he turn, your dearest—let us join you in looking for him.
The bride
2 My dearest went down to his garden, to the beds of spices,
→ in order to graze in the gardens and in order to gather lilies.