Song of Solomon 5:8-16
American Standard Version
8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If ye find my beloved,
[a]That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
9 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?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
[b]The chiefest among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold;
His locks are [c]bushy, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks,
Washed with milk, and [d]fitly set.
13 His cheeks are as a bed of [e]spices,
As [f]banks of sweet herbs:
His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 His hands are as [g]rings of gold set with [h]beryl:
His body is as [i]ivory work [j]overlaid with sapphires.
15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 His [k]mouth is most sweet;
Yea, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 5:8 Hebrew What will ye tell him? That etc.
- Song of Solomon 5:10 Hebrew Marked out by a banner.
- Song of Solomon 5:11 Or, curling
- Song of Solomon 5:12 Or, sitting by full streams
- Song of Solomon 5:13 Or, balsam
- Song of Solomon 5:13 Or, towers of perfumes
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, cylinders
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, topaz
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, bright ivory
- Song of Solomon 5:14 Or, encrusted
- Song of Solomon 5:16 Or, speech. Hebrew palate.
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