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12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A [a]rock garden locked, a (A)spring (B)sealed up.
13 Your shoots are [b]an (C)orchard of (D)pomegranates
With (E)choice fruits, (F)henna with nard plants,
14 (G)Nard and saffron, calamus and (H)cinnamon,
With all the trees of (I)frankincense,
(J)Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest [c]spices.
15 You are a garden spring,
A well of [d](K)fresh water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

16 [e]Awake, O north wind,
And come, wind of the south;
Make my (L)garden breathe out fragrance,
Let its [f]spices flow forth.
May (M)my beloved come into his garden
And eat its (N)choice fruits!”

The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

[g]I have (O)come into my garden, (P)my sister, my bride;
I have picked my (Q)myrrh along with my balsam.
I have eaten my honeycomb with my (R)honey;
I have (S)drunk my wine with my milk.
Eat, (T)friends;
Drink and [h]imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:12 Lit stone heap
  2. Song of Songs 4:13 Or a park, a paradise
  3. Song of Songs 4:14 Or balsam odors
  4. Song of Songs 4:15 Lit living
  5. Song of Songs 4:16 BRIDE
  6. Song of Songs 4:16 Or balsam odors
  7. Song of Songs 5:1 BRIDEGROOM
  8. Song of Songs 5:1 Or become drunk

12 My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden—
a locked garden[a] and a sealed spring.(A)
13 Your branches are a paradise[b] of pomegranates
with choicest fruits;(B)
henna with nard,
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,(C)
with all the trees of frankincense,(D)
myrrh and aloes,(E)
with all the best spices.
15 You are a garden spring,
a well of flowing water(F)
streaming from Lebanon.

Woman

16 Awaken,(G) north wind;
come, south wind.
Blow on my garden,
and spread the fragrance of its spices.
Let my love come to his garden
and eat its choicest fruits.(H)

Man

I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gather[c] my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.

Narrator

Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with caresses![d](I)

Footnotes

  1. 4:12 Some Hb mss read locked fountain
  2. 4:13 Or park, or orchard
  3. 5:1 Lit pluck
  4. 5:1 Or Drink your fill, lovers