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Song of Songs 5:8-16
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8 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,(A)
if you find my love,
tell him that I am lovesick.(B)

Young Women

9 What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?(C)
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?

Woman

10 My love is fit and strong,[a](D)
notable among ten thousand.(E)

11 His head is purest gold.
His hair is wavy[b](F)
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(G)
beside flowing streams,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.[c]
13 His cheeks(H) are like beds of spice,
mounds of[d] perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.(I)
14 His arms[e] are rods of gold
set[f] with beryl.(J)
His body[g] is an ivory panel
covered with lapis lazuli.(K)
15 His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,(L)
as majestic as the cedars.(M)
16 His mouth is sweetness.
He is absolutely desirable.(N)
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:10 Or is radiant and ruddy
  2. 5:11 Or is like palm leaves; Hb obscure
  3. 5:12 Lit milk sitting in fullness
  4. 5:13 LXX, Vg read spice, yielding
  5. 5:14 Lit hands
  6. 5:14 Lit filled; Sg 5:2,12
  7. 5:14 Lit abdomen
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Song of Songs 5:8-16
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8 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)—
    if you find my beloved,(B)
what will you tell him?
    Tell him I am faint with love.(C)

Friends

9 How is your beloved better than others,
    most beautiful of women?(D)
How is your beloved better than others,
    that you so charge us?

She

10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy,
    outstanding among ten thousand.(E)
11 His head is purest gold;
    his hair is wavy
    and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(F)
    by the water streams,
washed in milk,(G)
    mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks(H) are like beds of spice(I)
    yielding perfume.
His lips are like lilies(J)
    dripping with myrrh.(K)
14 His arms are rods of gold
    set with topaz.
His body is like polished ivory
    decorated with lapis lazuli.(L)
15 His legs are pillars of marble
    set on bases of pure gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,(M)
    choice as its cedars.
16 His mouth(N) is sweetness itself;
    he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved,(O) this is my friend,
    daughters of Jerusalem.(P)

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