10 (A)How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much (B)better is your love than wine,
And the (C)fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of [a]spices!

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  1. Song of Solomon 4:10 Or balsam odors

12 “A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A [a]rock garden locked, a (A)spring (B)sealed up.

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  1. Song of Solomon 4:12 Lit stone heap

The Torment of Separation

[a]I have (A)come into my garden, (B)my sister, my bride;
I have gathered my (C)myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb [b]and my (D)honey;
I have (E)drunk my wine [c]and my milk.
Eat, (F)friends;
Drink and [d]imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

[e]I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, (G)my sister, my darling,
(H)My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is [f]drenched with dew,
My (I)locks with the [g]damp of the night.’

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  1. Song of Solomon 5:1 BRIDEGROOM
  2. Song of Solomon 5:1 Lit with
  3. Song of Solomon 5:1 Lit with
  4. Song of Solomon 5:1 Or become drunk
  5. Song of Solomon 5:2 BRIDE
  6. Song of Solomon 5:2 Lit filled
  7. Song of Solomon 5:2 Lit drops